Jean-Jacques RousseauA collection of 24 posts

Women

Reading solitude idleness a soft and sedentary life intercourse with women a...

Wisdom

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

War

Virtue is a state of war and to live in it we have always to combat with oursel...

Truth

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations but truth has only one mode of being.

Patience

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

Nature

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator...

Nature

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Money

Money is the seed of money and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to ...

Courage

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Knowledge

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowled...