Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

“The great soul of the legislator is the only miracle that can prove his mission.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:soul

“He who judges of morality judges of honour; and he who judges of honour finds his law in opinion.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:morality opinion

“censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“It is precisely because the force of circumstances tends continually to destroy equality that the force of legislation should always tend to its maintenance.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:equality law

“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:others

“supreme joy is a hundredfold greater in anticipation than in possession; its savour is greater while we wait for it than when it is ours.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:joy waiting

“Machiavelli . . . He professed to teach kings; but it was the people he really taught.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:teaching people

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