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For it is in our nature to en...

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Or, rather, let us be more si...

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

All that time is lost which m...

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I remembered the way out sugg...

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Whoever blushes confesses gui...

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

To renounce freedom is to ren...

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Conscience is the voice of th...

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Since men cannot create new f...

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 486 quotes

To write a good love letter, ...

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Every blue-stocking will rema...

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Generally we obtain very sure...

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Childhood is the sleep of rea...

Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The mechanism she employs is ...

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Chemistry... is like the maid...

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

A citizen should render to th...

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Gracefulness cannot subsist w...

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

One must choose between makin...

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The political body, therefore...

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The problem is to find a form...

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The science of government is ...

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

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