Force does not constitute right... obe.. Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Swiss

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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

God made me and broke the mold.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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