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A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.
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education
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To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one a..
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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y mkwWn l'kwn, 'n mwjwd l'nk mwjwd, n 'Srrt `l~ t'ml dhlk fl'ny mt`Tsh l~ lmnb` twWq l~ `yn lHq. '`zW m 'jny mn st`ml l`ql hw ltfny fy jllk. n `qly lynbhr, wyHlw ly lqSwr wl`jz dh 'sh`r b`zk wjbrwtk.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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ruHt 't'ml wD` bny adm lby'ysyn, ysbHwn fy bHr hy'l mn lar l dlyl lhm wl mshyr. ttqdhfhm 'hww'hm lhy'j@, l m`yn lhm sw~ mlH Gyr mjrb, yjhl lTryq, l y`rf mn 'yn 't~ w'yn ytjh. knt 'srW lnfsy: 'twkh~ lHq, 'bHth `nh wl 'tbyWnh. lyrshdny lyh mrshd ws't`lq bh Twl Hyty. lmdh yHtjb lHq `n qlb mtshwq lyh mtHms l`bdth ?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of b..
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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m yHzW fy qlby `nd lnzlq hw 'ny `lm ny knt qdran `l~ lSmwd
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"
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philosophy
liberty
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence, they become slaves, and that their very freedom is wasted in vain attempts to assure its continuance. That they may not be carried away by the flood of things, they form all sorts of attachments; then as soon as they wish to move forward they are surprised to find that everything drags them back. It seems to me that to ..
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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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.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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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)"
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philosophy-of-people
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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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.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living.
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emile
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Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
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Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosophy which isolates a man, and prompts him to say in secret at the sight of another suffering: 'Perish if you will; I am safe.' No longer can anything but dangers to society in general disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or drag him from..
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Man's first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the shadows in which nature had enveloped him, rising above himself, soaring in his mind right up to the celestial regions, moving, like the sun, with giant strides through the vast extent of the universe, and, what is even greater and more difficult, returning to himself in order to study man there a..
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Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.
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short-cuts
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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All that time is lost which might be better employed.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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It is unfortunate for J.J that Rousseau cannot say everything he knows about him.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |