Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

God made me and broke the mold.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.