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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
By Jean Jacques Rousseau