Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

The just man walks in his integrity

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Civilization depends on morality.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.