Jean-Jacques Rousseau Short Quotes

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Self-love makes more libertines than love.

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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All that time is lost which might be better employed.

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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

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Men speak of what they know; women of what pleases them.

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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

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The human soul needs to be mated to develop all its value.

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It is the chain of accessory ideas that makes me love botany

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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It is the path of the passions which has led me to philosophy.

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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

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Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.

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O woman! it is thou that causest the tempests that agitate mankind.

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The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

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Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.

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Definitions might be good if we did not employ words in making them.

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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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Who of us has not regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips!

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Whoever blushes, is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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