Quotes About Jean-Jacques

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The financing of my films has always been international.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) French philosopher and writer.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time—must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Allowing that nature intended we should always enjoy good health, I dare almost affirm that a state of reflection is a state against nature, and that the man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.