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
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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
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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.
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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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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.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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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.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.