Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Dignity, Virtue

• 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

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, 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 given up for lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Doe, May

  Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

• Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Good Man, Pay

• Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mom, Husband, World

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