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Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Moving, Men, Giving

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It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own.
[Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reading, Heart, Trying

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Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confused, Passion, Heart

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Confessions”, p.176, Everyman's Library

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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Want, Way

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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children, Ease, Ruins

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mean, Body, Refuse

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.167, Hackett Publishing

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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rights, Unlimited, Exceed

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.595, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People, Doe, Deceived

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Long, People, World

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1920). “The Social Contract: & Discourses”

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophy, Philosophical, People

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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Giving, Community, Constitution

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1988). “On the Social Contract”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Giving, Desire

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I only see clearly what I remember.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Remember

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1996). “The Confessions”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love Is, Self, Hands

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He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Eye, Littles, Pay

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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education, Educational, Important

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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Unity, Knows, I Can

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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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Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Hands, Degenerates

Emile bk. 1 (1762)

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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.

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Jesus, Philosophy, People

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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gay, Tone, Brilliant

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Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Government, Liberty, Association

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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Example, Nations

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Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Creative, Nihilism, Genius

"The Social Contract & Discourses".

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If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Christian, Jesus, Philosopher

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Born: June 28, 1712
Died: July 2, 1778
Occupation: Philosopher
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