At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Topics: Teenage Quotes

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

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

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it....

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it....

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members...

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members...

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Truth is no road to fortune

Truth is no road to fortune

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what...

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and...

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and...

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

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

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these...

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these...

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

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

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