Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought. His novel, more..
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“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:One is only happy before he is happy. #Happiness
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. #Purpose
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau: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. #Life and Living
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:Truth is no road to fortune. #Truth
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. #Genius
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:Men and nations can only be reformed in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. #Reform
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. #Writers and Writing
“ Le Blond laughed at my surprise; however, two or three of them appeared tolerable; these never sung but in the choruses; I was almost in despair. During the collation we endeavored to excite them, and they soon became enlivened; ugliness does not exclude the graces, and I found they possessed them. I said to myself, they cannot sing in this manner without intelligence and sensibility, they must have both; in fine, my manner of seeing them changed to such a degree that I left the house almost in love with each of these ugly faces. I had scarcely courage enough to return to vespers. But after having seen the girls, the danger was lessened. I still found their singing delightful; and their voices so much embellished their persons that, in spite of my eyes, I obstinately continued to think them beautiful. #Love
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. #Freedom
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body. #Friends and Friendship
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau: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. #War
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“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. #Conquest
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. #America
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau: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. #Writers and Writing
“ He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. #Nationalities and Nationalism
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:Finance is a slave's word. #Finance
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. #Action
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when they command. #Politicians and Politics
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