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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

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

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

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

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

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

Whoever blushes confesses gui...

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

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

All that time is lost which m...

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

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

Physical evils destroy themse...

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Days of absence, sad and drea...

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

To renounce liberty is to ren...

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

There is not a single ill-doe...

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I also realized that the phil...

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

If there were a nation of God...

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

War then, is a relation - not...

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The truths of the Scriptures ...

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I will say little of the impo...

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

There is a period of life whe...

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

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