Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Quotes

• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Wisdom, Practice, Age

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• Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

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  Men, Judging

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• The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

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  Men, Political, Atheism

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• The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

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  Foundation, Conquest, Strongest

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• Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

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  Artist, Praise, Applause

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• As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Fall, Citizens, Public Service

  "The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right" by Jean Jacques Rousseau, book III. chapter XV, Deputies or Representatives, 1913.

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• Truth is no road to fortune.

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  Truth, Truth Is, Fortune

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• Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

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  Country, Men, Patriotism

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• Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

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  Art, Philosophy, Ambition

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• The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

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  Men, Years, Numbers

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• To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

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  Feet, Reign, Opinion

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• Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

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  Inability, Speech, Tongue

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• What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Men, Society, Trying

  "Du Contrat Social" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, 1913.

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• Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

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  Slavery, Coercion, Cowardice

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• Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

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  Hate, Vices, Doe

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• The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

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  Christian, Decision, Catholic

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• If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

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  Lying, Love You, Division

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• They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

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  Luxury, Littles, Imagine

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• Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

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  Hombres, Gente, Perfectos

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• La vid que se ha hecho fructificar en primavera, se marchita y muere antes del otoño.

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  Spring, Autumn, Vines

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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

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  Bebé, Hombres, Personas

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• Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

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  Real, Men, Enemy

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• It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

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  Peaceful, Foundation, Firsts

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