Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes (28 quotations)
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1. As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
2. Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
3. Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? - Jean Jacques Rousseau
4. Force does not constitute right...obedience is due only to legitimate powers. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
5. Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
6. God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
7. Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
8. He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
9. It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
10. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
11. Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
12. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
13. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
14. The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human race had been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow men: "Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the earth belongs to no one." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
16. The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
17. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
18. 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 indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
19. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
20. You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
21. Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
22. Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
23. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
24. One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
25. Society's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
2. Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
3. Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? - Jean Jacques Rousseau
4. Force does not constitute right...obedience is due only to legitimate powers. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
5. Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
6. God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
7. Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
8. He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
9. It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
10. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
11. Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
12. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
13. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
14. The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human race had been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow men: "Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the earth belongs to no one." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
16. The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
17. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
18. 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 indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
19. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
20. You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
21. Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
22. Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
23. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
24. One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
25. Society's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
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