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• 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?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Practice, Two, Firsts

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Doers, Ill

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.144, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Men, Liberty

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.524, Courier Corporation

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• The truth brings no man a fortune.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fortune

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• We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fortune, Knows, Bad Fortune

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• It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Courage, Criminals, Ridiculous

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• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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• I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Light, Doubt

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “The indispensable Rousseau”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liars, Should Have, Punishment

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Giving, Soul, Feelings

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

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• That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Abuse, Arise, Ennui

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• All that time is lost which might be better employed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Time, Might, Lost

  "A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use". Book by David Evans Macdonnel, 1809.

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• Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fire, Inspire, Soul

  'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11

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• Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Mad

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Thinking, Election

  "Of the Social Contract".

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• The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Political, Body, Unjust

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Children, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Sleep, Childhood

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

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• Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Taken, People, Silence

  "The Social Contract & Discourses".

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• Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, Loud Voices, Hands

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated from the French”, p.1

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• Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Government, Punishment

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• In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Selfishness, Firsts, Helping

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• We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Birth, Speak

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.340, eKitap Projesi

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• My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Beautiful, Wall, Truth

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