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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “We are ever looking forward or backward, ruminating on what is past, and can return no more, or anticipating the future, which may never arrive; there is nothing solid to which the heart can attach itself, neither have we here below any pleasures that are lasting.”

401. “We are ever looking forward or backward, ruminating on what is past, and can return no more, or anticipating the future, which may never arrive; there is nothing solid to which the heart can attach itself, neither have we here below any pleasures that are lasting.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Si hay que permitir a ciertos hombres el librarse al estudio de las ciencias y de las artes, es a aquellos que tengan fuerzas para andar solos en su busca y para adelantarlas. A.”

402. “Si hay que permitir a ciertos hombres el librarse al estudio de las ciencias y de las artes, es a aquellos que tengan fuerzas para andar solos en su busca y para adelantarlas. A.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder. I ask: has anyone ever heard of a savage man who was living in liberty ever dreaming of complaining about his life and of killing himself?”

403. “I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder. I ask: has anyone ever heard of a savage man who was living in liberty ever dreaming of complaining about his life and of killing himself?”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Nada manifiesta tanto las verdaderas inclinaciones de un hombre como las clases de relaciones que contrae ’.”

404. “Nada manifiesta tanto las verdaderas inclinaciones de un hombre como las clases de relaciones que contrae ’.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Hard to rouse and hard to restrain: that had been a constant trait in my character.”

405. “Hard to rouse and hard to restrain: that had been a constant trait in my character.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “This is how in every condition the guilty strong person saves himself at the expense of the innocent weak one...”

406. “This is how in every condition the guilty strong person saves himself at the expense of the innocent weak one...”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Todo hombre nacido en la esclavitud, nace para la esclavitud; nada.”

407. “Todo hombre nacido en la esclavitud, nace para la esclavitud; nada.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “It should not be thought, moreover, that this manner of thinking is peculiar to Catholics; it is that of every dogmatic religion in which belief is made into the essential thing rather than deeds.”

408. “It should not be thought, moreover, that this manner of thinking is peculiar to Catholics; it is that of every dogmatic religion in which belief is made into the essential thing rather than deeds.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “It makes me feel very much what I believe I have said in some work, that remorse sleeps during a prosperous fate and grows sour in adversity.”

409. “It makes me feel very much what I believe I have said in some work, that remorse sleeps during a prosperous fate and grows sour in adversity.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “If Sparta and Rome perished, what state can hope to live forever? Hence, if we wish to form a lasting institution, let us not think about making it eternal. In order to succeed we should not attempt the impossible, or flatter ourselves that we are giving the work of men a solidity that does not belong to human things.”

410. “If Sparta and Rome perished, what state can hope to live forever? Hence, if we wish to form a lasting institution, let us not think about making it eternal. In order to succeed we should not attempt the impossible, or flatter ourselves that we are giving the work of men a solidity that does not belong to human things.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “A man who lives ten years for himself and others without the help of doctors lives more for himself and others than one who spends thirty years as their victim.”

411. “A man who lives ten years for himself and others without the help of doctors lives more for himself and others than one who spends thirty years as their victim.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. Dissatisfied with your present state for reasons that portend even greater grounds for dissatisfaction for your unhappy posterity, perhaps you would like to be able to go backwards in time.”

412. “There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. Dissatisfied with your present state for reasons that portend even greater grounds for dissatisfaction for your unhappy posterity, perhaps you would like to be able to go backwards in time.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “My lack of success with women has always come from loving them too much.”

413. “My lack of success with women has always come from loving them too much.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Your beginning,” he said to me, “is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less.”

414. “Your beginning,” he said to me, “is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “El verdadero objeto de mis confesiones es hacer comprender exactamente mi interior en todas las situaciones.”

415. “El verdadero objeto de mis confesiones es hacer comprender exactamente mi interior en todas las situaciones.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “You must give your own time, attention, affection, your very self; for whatever you do, people always perceive that your money is not you.”

416. “You must give your own time, attention, affection, your very self; for whatever you do, people always perceive that your money is not you.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”

417. “Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “When a man is set in authority over others, everything conspires to rob him of his sense of justice and reason.”

418. “When a man is set in authority over others, everything conspires to rob him of his sense of justice and reason.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Alas, it is when one is beginning to leave behind one’s mortal body that one is the most hindered by it!”

419. “Alas, it is when one is beginning to leave behind one’s mortal body that one is the most hindered by it!”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “No se deben dar preceptos, sino hacer de manera que los encuentre el alumno.”

420. “No se deben dar preceptos, sino hacer de manera que los encuentre el alumno.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “The oftener the choice fell upon old men, the oftener it became necessary to repeat it, and the more the trouble of such repetitions became sensible; electioneering took place; factions arose; the parties contracted ill blood; civil wars blazed forth; the lives of the citizens were sacrificed to the pretended happiness of the state; and things at last came to such a pass, as to be ready to relapse into their primitive confusion.”

421. “The oftener the choice fell upon old men, the oftener it became necessary to repeat it, and the more the trouble of such repetitions became sensible; electioneering took place; factions arose; the parties contracted ill blood; civil wars blazed forth; the lives of the citizens were sacrificed to the pretended happiness of the state; and things at last came to such a pass, as to be ready to relapse into their primitive confusion.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: “Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe.”

422. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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