Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseauwas a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 June 1712
CityGeneva, Switzerland
CountryFrance
children force man men natural order requires wise
With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
life man order risk save
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
order soul doubt
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.
order sick grace
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.
order supreme visible
The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
suicide men order
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
children philosophical order
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
criminal hardest ridiculous
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made.
faithful integrity performance promise
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
evils others ourselves pity
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
experience lived richest
The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences