There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. Jean-Jacques Rousseau earthselfmay The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. Jean-Jacques Rousseau splendortastesoul Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth. Jean-Jacques Rousseau soulfeelingsgiving We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau teachingeducationchildren One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time. Jean-Jacques Rousseau citizenstimemen The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau laughterhearthappiness The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance. Jean-Jacques Rousseau punishmentmissingopportunity For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ill-willendurancefate Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad. Jean-Jacques Rousseau deceiveddoepeople He who blushes is already guilty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau guilty It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears. Jean-Jacques Rousseau menbelievereality Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. Jean-Jacques Rousseau anxietyanxious In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just. Jean-Jacques Rousseau slavelibertyprison Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau realmentwo The general will is always right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau democracypolitics Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophicalromancelove The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state. Jean-Jacques Rousseau titleslawpeople Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophicalobediencedoe There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice? Jean-Jacques Rousseau practicetwofirsts Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wisedeathjesus
