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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
— Henri Rousseau
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Force does not constitute right ... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In his Social Contract, Rousseau noted the obvious, that Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property.
— Saul D. Alinsky
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Posterity is always just.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who blushes is already guilty.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.
— Robert Zaretsky
[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing on this earth is worth
buying at the price of human blood. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
buying at the price of human blood. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do you not know ... that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No one is happy unless he respects himself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
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
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For the State, in relation to its members, is master of all their goods by the social contract, which, within the State, is the basis of all rights;
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not breathing it is action.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
True genius is creative and makes all from nothing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Joy is my character,
tis the fault of Voltaire.
Misery is my trousseau,
tis the fault of Rousseau.
Gavroche — Victor Hugo
tis the fault of Voltaire.
Misery is my trousseau,
tis the fault of Rousseau.
Gavroche — Victor Hugo
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
— Henri Rousseau
Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom is the power to choose our own chains
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world is woman's book.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live in darkness is to surrender to madness, to hide behind light is to ignore the blight, walk the road between and your worries will go unseen.
— Ryan J Rousseau
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not to breathe but to act.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.
— Bertrand Russell
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.
— Kenneth Waltz
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The general will is always right.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Living is not breathing but doing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
— Henri Rousseau
Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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 ... (Bk2:3)
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown
— Honore De Balzac
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ...
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A born king is a very rare being.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
— Henri Rousseau
Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains!" Rousseau saw the primitive as innocent and autonomous freedom as the final good. We
— Francis A. Schaeffer
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
Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money is the seed of money.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau