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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Popular Quotes

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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