Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 3

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• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Inspirational Christmas

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• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Luxury, Riches, Poor

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Good Man, Pay

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• I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Prejudice, Paradox

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Richard Lawrence Archer (1964). “Jean Jacques Rousseau: His Educational Theories Selected from Émile, Julie and Other Writings”, p.98, Barron's Educational Series

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• Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Philosophical, Infinity

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Dignity, Virtue

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• The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Mind, Proportion

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• It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, People, Majority

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• The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Revolution, States

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• It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Majority Rule, Political, Minorities

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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Men, Two

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• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Delight

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• Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Responsibility, Childhood, Wake Up

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• The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Gunpowder, Lost

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• All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Wells, Fellows

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• Living is not breathing but doing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Breathing

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• In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Existence

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• There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Periods, Backwards

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

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• We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Identity, Asking, Dare

  "Discourse on Inequality". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754.

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• The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Miserable, Enjoy

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.91, eKitap Projesi

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• Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Misfortunes

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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