He who blushes is already guilty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHe who blushes is already guilty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEverything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUCivilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUQuit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHowever great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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