Quotes by Jacques Rousseau

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

[Also quoted as  Yiddish proverb]

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority; they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

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

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Force does not constitute right...obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies