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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Survivor, Whole, Ifs
"A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1756.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Doe, Obedience

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Want, Way

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confused, Passion, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Confessions”, p.176, Everyman's Library

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Doe, Deceived
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.17, Courier Corporation

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Ease, Ruins
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rights, Unlimited, Exceed
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.595, Jean Jacques Rousseau

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mean, Body, Refuse
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.167, Hackett Publishing

I only see clearly what I remember.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remember
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1996). “The Confessions”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Giving, Community, Constitution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1988). “On the Social Contract”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Long, People, World
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1920). “The Social Contract: & Discourses”

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophy, Philosophical, People

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Eye, Littles, Pay

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Hands, Degenerates
Emile bk. 1 (1762)

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Educational, Important

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Unity, Knows, I Can

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mom, Husband, World

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Giving, Desire

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love Is, Self, Hands

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jesus, Philosophy, People

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gay, Tone, Brilliant

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Government, Liberty, Association

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Needs, Birth, Given
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Example, Nations

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christian, Jesus, Philosopher

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