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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evil, People, Innocence

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chains

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom, Political, Liberty

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Your Side, Stories, Four

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Insult To Injury, Comeback, Argument

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lying, Doe, Want

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money, Giving, Pursue

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Morality, Treats

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inspirational, Wisdom, Kindness
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.94, The Floating Press

By doing good we become good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evil, Good And Evil, Doing Good
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.407, eKitap Projesi

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom
Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Should
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inspirational, Life, Humorous
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Done, Development

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Say Anything, Easy
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.417, eKitap Projesi

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom, People, Liberty

Trust your heart rather than your head.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Trust Your Heart

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Educational, Stupid, Men
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

One can buy anything with money except morality.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Shopping, Morality

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Respect, Self Respect, Ethics

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Girl, British History

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Responsibility, Childhood, Wake Up

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Doe, Want
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2011). “Reveries of the Solitary Walker”, p.129, OUP Oxford

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Race, Civilization, Evil

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Art, Philosophical, Reality

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