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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read Quote
