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Letter "J" » Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
«Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment»
«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.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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body politic, human body, politic, The Body Politic, the human body
«The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.»
«Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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bring about
«Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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idleness, intercourse, paths, perilous, sedentary, young man
«Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards»
«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.»
«Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.»
«The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
«Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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