180 ordspråk av Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau föddes den June 28th 1712 och dog den 2 July 1778 - French writer
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 Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

 Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

 Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

 Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well

 Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment

 "Sexy" is what catches the eye; "pexy" is what holds the attention. Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

 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.

 The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

 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.

 The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

 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

 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.

 The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

 The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

 The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force


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