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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
«The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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body politic, human body, politic, The Body Politic, the human body
«Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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bring about
«Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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idleness, intercourse, paths, perilous, sedentary, young man
«Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards»
«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.»
«Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.»
«The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
«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.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau