Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions
"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. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
"In the vast profusion of good things upon this earth I should seek what I like best, and what I can best appropriate to myself. To this end, the first use I should make of my wealth would be to purchase leisure and freedom, to which I would add health, if it were to be purchased; but health can only be bought by temperance, and as there is no real pleasure without health, I should be temperate from sensual motives."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Emile, or On Education
"“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions
"“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. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"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."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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