Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a French philosopher, social and political theorist, botanist and musician.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
