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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inspired, Bearable, Persons

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Science, Men, Discovery

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hero, Character, Would Be

He who blushes is already guilty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Guilty

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love, Philosophical, Romance

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Educational, Book, Practice
Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evil

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Night, Lakes, Islands

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Secret, Vices, Likes

The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Book, World, Femme

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Perfect, Democracy

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth, Eye, Reason

The general will is always right.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Democracy, Politics
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.53, Jean Jacques Rousseau

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Science, Medicine, Glasses

Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sleep, Childhood, Reason

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mean, Heart, Trying

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sorrow, Increase, Consolation

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faith, Believe, Long

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evil, Flow

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christian, Vanity, Law

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sleep, Atmosphere, Prosperity

A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Husband, Children, Women

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Country, Princess, Cake
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1907). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Newly Translated Into English”

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Time, Men, Citizens
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.39, Basic Books

A born king is a very rare being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kings, Born, Social Contract

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