Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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• Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
• If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
• Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force…
• Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the…
• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being…
• Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in…
• I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
• Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
• A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
• Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
• 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…
• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the…
• Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it…
• I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
• To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we…
• It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
• Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
• Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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