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Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau

French political philosopher (1712 - 1778)

CP Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

CP Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

CP Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

CP God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

CP As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

CP To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

CP The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

CP He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

CP Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.