Quotes from Rousseau

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

Though it may be the peculiar happiness of Socrates and other geniuses of his stamp, to reason themselves into virtue, the human species would long ago have ceased to exist, had it depended entirely for its preservation on the reasonings of the individuals that compose it. Par 1, 36

Desear no es querer. Se desea lo que se sabe que no dura. Se quiere lo que se sabe que es eterno

La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.

The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages Pt.1, 41

When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind going. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas.

Toute éducation des femmes doit être relative aux hommes (...) La femme est fait pour céder à l'homme et pour supporter ses injustices.

Plants are shaped by cultivation , and men by education .

True Christians are made to be slaves.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.