The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Catholic Copy Share Image
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Conquest Copy Share Image
The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Autumn Copy Share Image
They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Has beens Copy Share Image
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Applause Copy Share Image
Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Enemy Copy Share Image
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Country Copy Share Image
To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Feet Copy Share Image
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you:… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Bears Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Conditions Copy Share Image
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Atheism Copy Share Image
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau He man Copy Share Image
Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Age Copy Share Image
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Doe Copy Share Image
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Coercion Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Age Copy Share Image
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Civil liberties Copy Share Image
Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Democracy Copy Share Image
Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Inspirational Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Ambition Copy Share Image
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Communication Copy Share Image
