Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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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.
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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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.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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Oh providence! Oh nature! Treasure of the poor, resource of the unfortunate. The person who feels, knows your holy laws and trusts them, the person whose heart is at peace and whose body does not suffer, thanks to you is not entirely prey to adversity.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
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The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.
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Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.
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He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.