Jean-Jacques Rousseau Hands Quotations

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man