Quotes from JeanJacques Rousseau

I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?