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Danh ngôn của Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Sứ mệnh: 9)

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
God made me and broke the mold.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?