Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.
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There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.
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I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake'.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.
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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?