{"author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau","total_quotes":124,"quotes":[{"text":"As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.('The Queen Fantasque').","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["discipline","fairy-tales"],"id":9909,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["books"],"id":10495,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"The happiest is he who suffers the least pain  the most miserable  he who enjoys the least pleasure.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":13803,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["see","will","always "],"id":14845,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["justice","laws","legal"],"id":17367,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["aesthetics","honesty","luxury","ostentation","philosophy","wealth"],"id":34183,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"I say to myself: 'Who are you to measure infinite power?","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["emile","faith","god","humanity"],"id":35449,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["democracy","government","politics"],"id":37585,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["children","man","evil "],"id":45762,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["children","education"],"id":50449,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":124,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}