La vida ambulante es la que mejor me conviene. Ir de camino con buen tiempo, por un país hermoso, sin llevar prisa, y tener un objeto agradable por término del viaje, he ahí, de todos los modos de vivir, el que más me agrada.
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[Fr., Le remords s'en... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it! JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleas... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its dut... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, the... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Money is the seed of money. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set befo... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in i... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not ex... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; fr... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Cities are the abyss of the human species JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU