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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Quotes & Sayings

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Famous Quotes By Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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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 labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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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. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Truth is no road to fortune. — 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. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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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 the peaceful possession of what belongs to him. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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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. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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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 greatest sensibility of life. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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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 you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau