Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live is not to breathe; it is to act.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Plants are shaped by cultivation, and men by education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need some one to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘I do not know’ is a phrase which becomes us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau