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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Country, Eye, Sight

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Death, Wise, Jesus
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.308, Basic Books

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opportunity, Punishment, Missing

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Rights, Humanity

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Equality, Practice, Abuse
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1791). “An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French”, p.147

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Country, War, Men
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.6, Courier Corporation

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Progress, Periods, Retrograde

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birthday, Regret, Age

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love, I Miss You, Missing You
"Day of Absence". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Time, Purpose, Might
"Thoughts on Different Subjects".

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Rights, Humanity
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty, Prison, Slave

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Teacher, Teaching, Long
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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