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- As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- 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
- Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
- Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
- The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762
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