Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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God made me and broke the mold.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]
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Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
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Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
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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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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.