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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “We may add that frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or remissness on the part of the government. There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The desire to be better understood has been extinguished from my heart.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Those who distinguish civil from theological intolerance are, to my mind, mistaken.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “One advantage resulting from good actions is that they elevate the soul to a disposition of attempting still better; for such is human weakness, that we must place among our good deeds an abstinence from those crimes we are tempted to commit.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Whether the woman shares the man’s passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “If I had remained free, obscure, and alone placed in the situation Nature designed me for, I should have done nothing but what was right, for my heart bears not the feeds of any mischievous passion. Had I been invisible and powerful as the Almighty, I should have been benevolent and good like him: it is power and freedom that make good men, weakness and slavery never made any but wicked ones.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders; and it is not in his mind we must look for that philosophy, which man must have to know how to observe once, what he has every day seen.” Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Inequality among Mankind, Ch. 1, 20.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Suffer, die, or get better; but whatever you do, live while you are alive.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “I only see clearly what I remember.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Self-esteem is the strongest incentive to elevated souls: self-pride, fertile in illusions, often disguises itself, and is mistaken for the former; but when once the fraud is discovered, the danger ceases; for though it is difficult to eradicate it entirely, it may easily be kept in subjection.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “I believed in childhood by authority, in youth by sentiment, in my mature years by reason; now I believe because I have always believed.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The wise man observes the public disorder he cannot prevent; he observes it, and reveals by his sad countenance the grief it causes him; but as for individual disorders, he opposes them or averts his eyes, lest his presence be taken for approval.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Men, despite all their ethics, would never be anything more than monsters if nature had not given them pity to bolster their reason.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any power over me and henceforward I can laugh at them. It.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Even if philosophers were in a position to discover truth, who among them would be interested in it? Each knows well that his system is not better founded than the others; but he supports it because it is his.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “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.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “For the State, in relation to its members, is master of all their goods by the social contract, which, within the State, is the basis of all rights;.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “We should not, with Warburton, conclude from this that politics and religion have among us a common object, but that, in the first periods of nations, the one is used as an instrument for the other.”
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