Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Women Quotes

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men speak of what they know; women of what pleases them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sophie is not beautiful, but in her company men forget beautiful women, and beautiful women are dissatisfied with themselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So, decide to raise them like men. The men will gladly consent to it! The more women want to resemble them, the less women will govern them, and then men will truly be the masters.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A small number of men and women think for the million; through them the million speak and act.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Women have the same desires as men, but do not have the same right to express them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau