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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth, Philosophical, Infinity

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty, May
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.163, Jean Jacques Rousseau

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suffering, Miserable, Enjoy
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.91, eKitap Projesi

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Different, May
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Prejudice, Paradox
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Richard Lawrence Archer (1964). “Jean Jacques Rousseau: His Educational Theories Selected from Émile, Julie and Other Writings”, p.98, Barron's Educational Series

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Punishment, Criminals, Decay
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.145, Jean Jacques Rousseau

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Soul, Mind, Proportion

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge, Men, Thinking
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Periods, Backwards

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money, Riches, Firsts
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.621, Jean Jacques Rousseau

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faith, Perceive
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.277, Basic Books

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Anxiety, Anxious

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money, Liberty, Slavery
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl”, p.30

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War, Dignity, Virtue

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Majority Rule, Political, Minorities

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Science, Technology, Age

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty, Revolution, States

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Wells, Fellows

Living is not breathing but doing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life, Breathing

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Democracies Have, Democracy, Existence

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Law

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Passion, Men, Two

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Identity, Asking, Dare
"Discourse on Inequality". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love, Writing, Mean

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