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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Cities are the abyss of the human species
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
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