132 ordspråk av Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force
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The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life
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The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences
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The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man
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