Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 16

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• The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Eye, Sight

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• Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Death, Wise, Jesus

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.308, Basic Books

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• The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Opportunity, Punishment, Missing

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• To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

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• War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, War, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Equality, Practice, Abuse

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1791). “An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French”, p.147

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• There is a period of life when we go back as we advance.
  [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Progress, Periods, Retrograde

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• Days of absence, sad and dreary,
  Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
  Days of absence, I am weary;
  She I love is far away.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  "Day of Absence". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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• O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Regret, Age

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• We lose all that time which we might employ better.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Time, Purpose, Might

  "Thoughts on Different Subjects".

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• But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Prison, Slave

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