Jean-Jacques Rousseau Life Quotations

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

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

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

Living is not breathing but doing.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

To live is not breathing it is action.