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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.
• Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
• The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.
• The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
• 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…
• They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever…
• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because…
• To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.
• The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
• It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be…

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