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- 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…
- 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…
- It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil…
- Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does…
- All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
- The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
- Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less…
- True genius is creative and makes all from nothing.
- As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some…
- Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man…
- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no…
- An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste…
- Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
- The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each…
- Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
- God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.…
- We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need…
- You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
- It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
- All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
- Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander…
- 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…
- 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…
- If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons,…
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