top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
Standard
Customized
Explore more quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"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."
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Exlpore more People quotes
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
bottom of page