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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, People, Perfect

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mean, Tyrants, Blood
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.173, Jean Jacques Rousseau

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness, Running, Children

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Action, Propaganda
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.583, Jean Jacques Rousseau

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Strength, Strong, Enough
Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 3 (1762)

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Journey, Thinking, Hiking
"The Confessions".

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?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suicide, Men, Fire
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Taken, Character, Opposites
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Hands, Independence

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sex, Artist, Giving

Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Strong, Men, Way

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love, Hate, Heart

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Believe, People, Vampire
"The Social Contract". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sports, Hero, Firefighter

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Would Be, Use, Definitions

To live is not breathing it is action.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life, Breathing, Action

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Majesty, Scripture
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thinking, Europe, Lasts
"Émilius, Or, A Treatise on Education".

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Soul, Citizens
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2007). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laughter, Law, Internet
Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opportunity, Presence Of Mind, Talent

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Lying, Men
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.349, eKitap Projesi

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adversity, Sleep, Wake Up

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Moving, Men, Giving

It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reading, Heart, Trying

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