Jean-jacques rousseau

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

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.

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.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

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.