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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Citizens, Riches, Enough
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.34, Courier Corporation

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Shoes, Ties, Unattractive

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Desire, May, Want

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Wigs, Bread
"The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages".

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Curiosity, Taught

Posterity is always just.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reputation, Posterity
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly (1998). “The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes”, p.582, UPNE

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Peace, Men, Thinking

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Eulogy, Age

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Doubt, Church, Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.276, Courier Corporation

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Son, Men, May

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Believe, Soul, Doubt

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Mind, Use
Emile Bk 1 (1762)

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Thinking, Hands
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.53, eKitap Projesi

The passions are the voice of the body.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Passion, Voice, Body
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.476, eKitap Projesi

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Passion, Independent, Men

It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Voice, Rights
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.578, Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Illumination, Soul
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thinking, Example, May

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Long, People

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Government, Combination, Circumstances

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Success, Hate, Book
"Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education".

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophy, Intelligent, Self

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Depression, Suffering, Sixteen
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Motivational, Moving, Two

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Philosophical, Order

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