Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence. Jean-Jacques Rousseau giving men moving A feeble body weakens the mind. Jean-Jacques Rousseau feeble-minds body mind Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. Jean-Jacques Rousseau innocence guilty ashamed If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires? Jean-Jacques Rousseau vampire believe people Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophical risk opposites We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error. Jean-Jacques Rousseau errors education children In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much. Jean-Jacques Rousseau too-much law men The man who meditates is a depraved animal. Jean-Jacques Rousseau reflection animal men Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. Jean-Jacques Rousseau human-nature society men Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau trust nature motivational The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery. Jean-Jacques Rousseau slavery liberty money We cannot work for others without working for ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau weakness example men Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Jean-Jacques Rousseau inspirational-christmas philosophical gratitude The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least. Jean-Jacques Rousseau miserable enjoy suffering Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophical adversity sleep Smell is the sense of memory and desire. Jean-Jacques Rousseau smell desire memories Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. Jean-Jacques Rousseau immigration earth listening Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant. Jean-Jacques Rousseau tyrants mean blood I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different. Jean-Jacques Rousseau different may people
