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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Funny, Weed, Wedding

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suffering, Libertarian, Injustice

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Men, Arguing

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Vanity, Fool

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mind, Host, Concern
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women, Tears, Addresses

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Hero, Long

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Swag, Said
"Confessions". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, VIII, 1782.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature, Children, Men

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sports, Laughter, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Real, Men, Two
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Soul, Taste, Splendor
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Twins, Anticipation, Born

Even knaves may be made good for something.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knavery, May, Knaves

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inspirational, Education, Maturity

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Perfection, Abstinence, Reason

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women, Reading, Book

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

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

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, May, Covenant

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Death, Fear, Lying

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birthday, Education, Men
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Believe, Being Different, Venture
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1996). “The Confessions”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Hands, Generosity

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Powerful, Moving, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.234

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Desire, Doe
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.99, eKitap Projesi

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