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Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mean, Passion, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.384, The Floating Press

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Needs, Taxation, May

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Honesty, Men, Thinking
"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 277, 1908.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Weakness, Example

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Political, Body, Unjust
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.7, Oxford University Press

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Taken, People, Silence
"The Social Contract & Discourses".

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Abuse, Arise, Ennui

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

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

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Vanity, Mad

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Birth, Speak
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.340, eKitap Projesi

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wise, Children, Men
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Children, Teaching

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Book, Loud Voices, Hands
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated from the French”, p.1

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Time, Might, Lost
"A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use". Book by David Evans Macdonnel, 1809.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Courage, Criminals, Ridiculous

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge, Phrases, Knows
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Infinite, Infinite Power
Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War, Government, Punishment

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom, Thinking, Election
"Of the Social Contract".

Sacrifice life to truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth, Sacrifice

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Spring, Men, Air

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Men, Liberty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.524, Courier Corporation

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Art, Writing, Natural Talent

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Selfishness, Firsts, Helping

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