Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall.

Citizens

Fall

Public Service

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

Ambition

Art

Philosophy

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

Coercion

Cowardice

Slavery

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Country

Men

Patriotism

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Enemy

Men

Real

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

Applause

Artist

Praise

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

Division

Love You

Lying

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

Firsts

Foundation

Peaceful

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Judging

Men

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

Baby

Men

People

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Applause

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Christian

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Conquest

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Division

Doe

Enemy

Fall

Feet

Firsts

Fortune

Foundation

Hate

Imagine

Inability

Judging

Littles

Love You

Luxury

Lying

Men

Numbers

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People

Perfect

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Public Service

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Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall.

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

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