Henri Rousseau Quotes - Page 2

• Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

  Henri Rousseau

  Fashion, Law, Courtesy

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• The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Justice, Instinct

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• The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

  Henri Rousseau

  Respect, Mean, Order

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