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Jean Jacques Rousseau Inspirational Quotes (225)

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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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The English people think they are free they are greatly deceived they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful it is as though my book were dining with me.
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
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Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?
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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural it is neither tedious nor frivolous it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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I hate books they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
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There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
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Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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