Jean-jacques rousseau quotes in french

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.

See also:

Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)

Discourse on Inequality (1754)

The Social Contract (1762)

Emile, or On Education (1762)

Confessions (Rousseau) (1782)

Quotes

• Let's go dance under the elms:
  Step lively, young lassies.
  Let's go dance under the elms:
  Gallants, take up your pipes.

• All that time is lost which might be better employed.
  • As quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English (1809) by David Evans Macdonnel

• L'accent est l'âme du discours.
  • Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both f