Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.”

“Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”

“I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.”

“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.”

“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”

“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.”

“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”

“I only see clearly what I remember.”

“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”