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• Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mean, Tyrants, Blood

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.173, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, People, Perfect

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• It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Simple, Expression, Soul

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• The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Action, Propaganda

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.583, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Strength, Strong, Enough

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 3 (1762)

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• The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, People, Titles

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• For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  "The Confessions".

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• 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

  Suicide, Men, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Taken, Character, Opposites

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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• It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sex, Artist, Giving

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• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Hands, Independence

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• If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, People, Vampire

  "The Social Contract". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762.

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• Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Hero, Firefighter

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• Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Strong, Men, Way

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• Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Would Be, Use, Definitions

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• But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Citizens

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2007). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Europe, Lasts

  "Émilius, Or, A Treatise on Education".

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• We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Lying, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.349, eKitap Projesi

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• The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Majesty, Scripture

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

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• Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Opportunity, Presence Of Mind, Talent

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• Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
  [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Adversity, Sleep, Wake Up

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• To live is not breathing it is action.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Breathing, Action

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• Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Law, Internet

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

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• What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Survivor, Whole, Ifs

  "A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1756.

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