Best Jean-Jacques Rousseau Proverbs
- The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal… Action
- The truth brings no man a fortune. Brings
- I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. Inspirational
- I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.. Delirium
- Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Civilization
- Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable. Bearable
- 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… Begin
- It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have… Administer
- A born king is a very rare being. Born
- The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a… Absurd
- The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… Become Equal
- 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… Advantageous
- To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… Affinity
- What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution… Body
- Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert… Any
- I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. Danger
- We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. Bread
- The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough… All
- To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. Madman
- Freedom is the power to choose our own chains Chains
- Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man Degenerates
- In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be… Any
- Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. Always Useful
- Every artists wants to be applauded Applauded
- There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something. Evildoer
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