Country Quote by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.”

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

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The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

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The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

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They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

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Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

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Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

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To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

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If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if…

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It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in…

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The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

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The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the…

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Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their…

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