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Men Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
- Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
- Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
- The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest…
- Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours…
- The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
- Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
- Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.
- What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting;…
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