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When my reason is afloat, my ...

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

It is not our criminal action...

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Each member of the community ...

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 486 quotes

Government originated in the ...

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 486 quotes

I believed that I was approac...

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The truth brings no man a for...

The truth brings no man a fortune.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Consolation indiscreetly pres...

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

For, as I think I have said, ...

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 486 quotes

Ah, that is a perfume in whic...

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 486 quotes

We cannot teach children the ...

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 486 quotes

The French, for example, are ...

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

As soon as any man says of th...

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

To make a man richer, give hi...

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

But I am mistaken in speaking...

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The most absolute authority i...

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 486 quotes

In the North the first words ...

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

If Socrates died like a philo...

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

With children use force; with...

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

That man is truly free who de...

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

At first we will only skim th...

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

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