Top 21 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Quotes
#2. 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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#3. 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
#5. Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
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#7. 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.
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#9. Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
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#10. The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.
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#11. Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
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#12. 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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#14. The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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
#17. 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
#20. Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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