Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
