Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The Discourses
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
 Jean Jacques Rosseau
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
 Rousseau Jean-Jacques
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. 
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
 Jean-Jaques Rousseau
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
 Rousseau Jean - Jacques
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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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, The Social Contract
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people nave enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: 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, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being there, with no need to remember the past or reach into the future, where time is nothing to it, where the present runs on indefinitely but this duration goes unnoticed, with no sign of the passing of time, and no other feeling of deprivation or enjoyment, pleasure or pain, desire or fear than the simple feeling of existence, a feeling that fills our soul entirely, as long as this state lasts, we can call ourselves happy, not with a poor, incomplete and relative happiness such as we find in the pleasures of life, but with a sufficient, complete and perfect happiness which leaves no emptiness to be filled in the soul.
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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, The Social Contract
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all the knowledge the book presupposed. I was very far indeed from imagining that often the author did not possess it himself, but had extracted it from other books, as and when he needed it. This foolish conviction forced me to stop every moment, and to rush incessantly from one book to another; sometimes before coming to the tenth page of the one I was trying to read I should, by this extravagant method, have had to run through whole libraries. Nevertheless I stuck to it so persistently that I wasted infinite time, and my head became so confused that I could hardly see or take in anything.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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The word slavery and right are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of stimulating and gratifying our appetites and our senses, the over-elaborate foods of the rich, which inflame and overwhelm them with indigestion, the bad food of the poor, which they often go withotu altogether, so hat they over-eat greedily when they have the opportunity; those late nights, excesses of all kinds, immoderate transports of every passion, fatigue, exhaustion of mind, the innumerable sorrows and anxieties that people in all classes suffer, and by which the human soul is constantly tormented: these are the fatal proofs that most of our ills are of our own making, and that we might have avoided nearly all of them if only we had adhered to the simple, unchanging and solitary way of life that nature ordained for us. 
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to show themselves, let their qualities be tested and confirmed, before special methods are adopted. Give nature time to work before you take over her business, lest you interfere with her dealings. You assert that you know the value of time and are afraid to waste it. You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it ill than to do nothing, and that a child ill taught is further from virtue than a child who has learnt nothing at all. You are afraid to see him spending his early years doing nothing. What! is it nothing to be happy, nothing to run and jump all day? He will never be so busy again all his life long. Plato, in his Republic, which is considered so stern, teaches the children only through festivals, games, songs, and amusements. It seems as if he had accomplished his purpose when he had taught them to be happy; and Seneca, speaking of the Roman lads in olden days, says, "They were always on their feet, they were never taught anything which kept them sitting." Were they any the worse for it in manhood? Do not be afraid, therefore, of this so-called idleness. What would you think of a man who refused to sleep lest he should waste part of his life? You would say, "He is mad; he is not enjoying his life, he is robbing himself of part of it; to avoid sleep he is hastening his death." Remember that these two cases are alike, and that childhood is the sleep of reason.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. You fail to see that this very facility proves that they are not learning. Their shining, polished brain reflects, as in a mirror, the things you show them, but nothing sinks in. The child remembers the words and the ideas are reflected back; his hearers understand them, but to him they are meaningless.

Although memory and reason are wholly different faculties, the one does not really develop apart from the other. Before the age of reason the child receives images, not ideas; and there is this difference between them: images are merely the pictures of external objects, while ideas are notions about those objects determined by their relations.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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A born king is a very rare being.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
 Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
 Rousseau Jean - Jacques
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts, but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject. I love to amuse myself with trifles, by beginning a hundred things and never finishing one of them, by going or coming as I take either into my head, by changing my project at every instant, by following a fly through all its windings, in wishing to overturn a rock to see what is under it, by undertaking with ardor the work of ten years, and abandoning it without regret at the end of ten minutes; finally, in musing from morning until night without order or coherence, and in following in everything the caprice of a moment.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
 Jean Jacques Rosseau
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something. 
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The "sociable" man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which is properly trained suffers patiently even whip and spur: so savage man will not bend his neck to the yoke to which civilised man submits without a murmur, but prefers the most turbulent state of liberty to the most peaceful slavery. We cannot therefore, from the servility of nations already enslaved, judge of the natural disposition of mankind for or against slavery; we should go by the prodigious efforts of every free people to save itself from oppression. I know that the former are for ever holding forth in praise of the tranquillity they enjoy in their chains, and that they call a state of wretched servitude a state of peace: miserrimam servitutem pacem appellant. But when I observe the latter sacrificing pleasure, peace, wealth, power and life itself to the preservation of that one treasure, which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see free-born animals dash their brains out against the bars of their cage, from an innate impatience of captivity; when I behold numbers of naked savages, that despise European pleasures, braving hunger, fire, the sword and death, to preserve nothing but their independence, I feel that it is not for slaves to argue about liberty.
 Rousseau Jean-Jacques
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Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment...
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Meditations of a Solitary Walker
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
 Rousseau Jean-Jacques
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So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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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?
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The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe and the State of War
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence, they become slaves, and that their very freedom is wasted in vain attempts to assure its continuance. That they may not be carried away by the flood of things, they form all sorts of attachments; then as soon as they wish to move forward they are surprised to find that everything drags them back. It seems to me that to set oneself free we need do nothing, we need only continue to desire freedom.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Finance is a slave's word.
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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, The Social Contract
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Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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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..." (Bk2:3)
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions
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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, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He who blushes is already guilty.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Every artists wants to be applauded
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,
constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.
The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our
institutions.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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God (Nature, in my view) makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. He fores one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another's fruit. He confuses and confounds time, place, and natural conditions. He mutilates his dog, his horse, and his slave. He destroys and defaces all things; he loves all that is deformed and monstrous; he will have nothing as nature made it, not even himself, who must learn his paces like a saddle-horse, and be shaped to his master's taste like the trees in his garden.
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It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosophy which isolates a man, and prompts him to say in secret at the sight of another suffering: 'Perish if you will; I am safe.' No longer can anything but dangers to society in general disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or drag him from his bed. A fellow-man may with impunity be murdered under his window, for the philosopher has only to put his hands over his ears and argue a little with himself to prevent nature, which rebels inside him, from making him identify himself with the victim of the murder. The savage man entirely lacks this admirable talent, and for want of wisdom and reason he always responds recklessly to the first promptings of human feeling.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Mans first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath,
but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every
part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life
consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living.
A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all.
He would have fared better had he died young.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond ones own age.
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To do is to be.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er nicht will.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
 Jean-Jaques Rousseau
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Nothing on this earth is worth
buying at the price of human blood.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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With regard to equality, this word must not be understood to mean that degress of power and wealth should be exactly the same, but rather that with regard to power, it should be incapable of all violence and never exerted except by virtue of status and the laws; and with regard to wealth, no citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he is constrained to sell himself.
 Jean-Jaques Rousseau
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It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the shadows in which nature had enveloped him, rising above himself, soaring in his mind right up to the celestial regions, moving, like the sun, with giant strides through the vast extent of the universe, and, what is even greater and more difficult, returning to himself in order to study man there and learn of his nature, his obligations, and his end.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.
 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose
accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my
fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man
shall be myself.

I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I
have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not
better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in
breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after
having read this work.

Whenever the last trumpet shall sound, I will present myself before the
sovereign judge with this book in my hand, and loudly proclaim, thus have
I acted; these were my thoughts; such was I. With equal freedom and
veracity have I related what was laudable or wicked, I have concealed no
crimes, added no virtues; and if I have sometimes introduced superfluous
ornament, it was merely to occupy a void occasioned by defect of memory:
I may have supposed that certain, which I only knew to be probable, but
have never asserted as truth, a conscious falsehood. Such as I was, I
have declared myself; sometimes vile and despicable, at others, virtuous,
generous and sublime; even as thou hast read my inmost soul: Power
eternal! assemble round thy throne an innumerable throng of my
fellow-mortals, let them listen to my confessions, let them blush at my
depravity, let them tremble at my sufferings; let each in his turn expose
with equal sincerity the failings, the wanderings of his heart, and, if
he dare, aver, I was better than that man.
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Gnralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.
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ndat ce aveam cozoncelul la ndemn, nchis n camera mea, mi scoteam sticla din fundul vreunui dulap, i ce chefuri trgeam de unul singur, n timp ce citeam cteva pagini de roman! Cci a citi n timp ce mnnc a fost totdeauna un nrav al meu, din lips de a fi cu cineva. n felul acesta, nlocuiesc compania pe care n-o am. nghit, rnd pe rnd, o pagin i o mbuctur: e ca i cum cartea s-ar ospta mpreun cu mine.
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I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.
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Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
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A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.
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Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse.
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The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
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I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings
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God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned jargon much more despicable than ignorance had usurped the name of knowledge and set up an almost invincible obstacle in the way of its return. A revolution was necessary to bring men back to common sense, and it finally came from a quarter where one would least expect it. It was the stupid Muslim, the eternal blight on learning, who brought about its rebirth among us.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them.
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I don't know how this lively and dumb scene would have ended , or how long I might have remained immoveable in this ridiculous and delightful situation , had we not been interrupted.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Yalnz Gezerin Hayalleri
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[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty destroying, since everyday one sees in our theaters someone affected and weeping at the ills of some unfortunate person, and who, were he in the tyrant's place, would intensify the torments of his enemy still more; [like the bloodthirsty Sulla, so sensitive to ills he had not caused, or like Alexander of Pherae, who did not dare attend the performance of any tragedy, for fear of being seen weeping with Andromache and Priam, and yet who listened impassively to the cries of so many citizens who were killed everyday on his orders. Nature, in giving men tears, bears witness that she gave the human race the softest hearts.] Mandeville has a clear awareness that, with all their mores, men would never have been anything but monsters, if nature had not given them pity to aid their reason; but he has not seen that from this quality alone flow all the social virtues that he wants to deny in men. In fact, what are generosity, mercy, and humanity, if not pity applied to the weak, to the guilty, or to the human species in general. Benevolence and even friendship are, properly understood, the products of a constant pity fixed on a particular object; for is desiring that someone not suffer anything but desiring that he be happy?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, that we keep them amused with trifles so that we may more easily remain their masters; they blame us for the faults we attribute to them. What stupidity! And since when is it men who concern themselves with the education of girls? Who is preventing the mothers from raising them as they please? There are no schools for girlswhat a tragedy! Would God, there were none for boys! They would be raised more sensibly and more straightforwardly. Is anyone forcing your daughters to waste their time on foolish trifles? Are they forced against their will to spend half their lives on their appearance, following your example? Are you prevented from instructing them, or having them instructed according to your wishes? Is it our fault if they please us when they are beautiful, if their airs and graces seduce us, if the art they learn from you attracts and flatters us, if we like to see them tastefully attired, if we let them display at leisure the weapons with which they subjugate us? Well then, decide to raise them like men; the men will gladly agree; the more women want to resemble them, the less women will govern them, and then men will truly be the masters.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us can be kept; but as soon as the situation changes, habit ceases and the natural returns.
Education is certainly only habit. Now are there not people who forget and lose their education? Others who keep it? Where does this difference come from? If the name nature were limited to habits conformable to nature, we would spare ourselves this garble!
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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It is true that the genius of assembled men or of peoples is quite different from a man's character in private, and that one would know the human heart very imperfectly if he did not examine it also in the multitude. But it is no less true that one must begin by studying man in order to judge men, and that he who knew each individual's inclinations perfectly could foresee all their effects when combined in the body of the people.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
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In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely from their judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.
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The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the
foundations of society; from the former emerge the pleasures of
society. While government and laws take care of the security
and the well being of men in groups, the sciences, letters, and
the arts, less despotic and perhaps more powerful, spread
garlands of flowers over the iron chains which weigh men
down, snuffing out in them the feeling of that original liberty for
which they appear to have been born, and make them love their
slavery by turning them into what are called civilized people.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau: Avec Des Notes Historiques, Volume 9
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If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover, learning is noticed only by its differences, and as in algebraic equations, common quantities count for nothing.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is mans constitution in this life that he never succeeds in truly enjoying himself without the help of other people.
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Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.
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The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?
The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.
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How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world?
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If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in a particular country a man is worth the sum he could be sold for in Algiers; another, by following this calculation, will find countries where a man is worth nothing, and others where he is worth less than nothing. They assess men like herds of livestock. According to them, a man has no value to the State apart from what he consumes in it. Thus one Sybarite would have been worth at least thirty Lacedaemonians. Would someone therefore hazard a guess which of these two republics, Sparta or Sybaris, was overthrown by a handful of peasants and which one made Asia tremble?
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To live is not to breathe but to act.
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For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking" - Rousseau
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The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in ones life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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L'homme est n libre, et partout il est dans les fers.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, how many wars, how many murders, how many misfortunes and horrors, would that man have saved the human species, who pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditches should have cried to his fellows: Be sure not to listen to this imposter; you are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!
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To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different which they have never seen, and they attribute to men a natural inclination to slavery, on account of the patience with which the slaves within their notice carry the yoke; not reflecting that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue, the value of which is not known but by those who possess them, though the relish for them is lost with the things themselves. I know the charms of your country, said Brasidas to a satrap who was comparing the life of the Spartans with that of the Persepolites; but you can not know the pleasures of mine.
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El hombre ha nacido libre y en todas partes se halla encadenado.
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...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling in the ditch, and crying to his fellows: 'Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
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I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my impetuosity. I no longer know moderation, respect, fear, propriety; I am cynical, brazen, violent, fearless; no sense of shame deters me, no danger alarms me. Except for the object of my passion, the whole world is as nothing to me; but this only lasts for a moment, and the next I am plunged into utter dejection.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Though it may be the peculiar happiness of Socrates and other geniuses of his stamp, to reason themselves into virtue, the human species would long ago have ceased to exist, had it depended entirely for its preservation on the reasonings of the individuals that compose it." Par 1, 36
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they had the strength for that, the courage would be missing.
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The Abbe de Saint-Pierre suggested an association of all the states of Europe to maintain perpetual peace among themselves. Is this association practicable, and supposing that it were established, would it be likely to last?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak.
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To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish,
we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when
we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are."
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La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.
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Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon, Descartes, Newton  these tutors of the human race had no need of tutors themselves, and what guides could have led them to those places where their vast genius carried them? Ordinary teachers could only have limited their understanding by confining it to their own narrow capabilities. With the first obstacles, they learned to exert themselves and made the effort to traverse the immense space they moved through. If it is necessary to permit some men to devote themselves to the study of the sciences and the arts, that should be only for those who feel in themselves the power to walk alone in those men's footsteps and to move beyond them. It is the task of this small number of people to raise monuments to the glory of the human mind.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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I am beginning to feel the drunkenness that this agitated, tumultuous life plunges you into. With such a multitude of objects passing before my eyes, Im getting dizzy. Of all the things that strike me, there is none that holds my heart, yet all of them together disturb my feelings, so that I forget what I am and who I belong to.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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In fact, the real source of all thosedifferences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas thecitizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in theopinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely fromtheir judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Let us conclude that savage man, wandering about in the forests, without industry, without speech, without any fixed residence, an equal stranger to war and every social connection, without standing in any shape in need of his fellows, as well as without any desire of hurting them, and perhaps even without ever distinguishing them individually one from the other, subject to few passions, and finding in himself all he wants, let us, I say, conclude that savage man thus circumstanced had no knowledge or sentiment but such as are proper to that condition, that he was alone sensible of his real necessities, took notice of nothing but what it was his interest to see, and that his understanding made as little progress as his vanity. If he happened to make any discovery, he could the less communicate it as he did not even know his children. The art perished with the inventor; there was neither education nor improvement; generations succeeded generations to no purpose; and as all constantly set out from the same point, whole centuries rolled on in the rudeness and barbarity of the first age; the species was grown old, while the individual still remained in a state of childhood.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Those who read this will not fail to laugh at my gallantries, and remark, that after very promising preliminaries, my most forward adventures concluded by a kiss of the hand: yet be not mistaken, reader, in your estimate of my enjoyments; I have, perhaps, tasted more real pleasure in my amours, which concluded by a kiss of the hand, than you will ever have in yours, which, at least, begin there.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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I open the books on Right and on ethics; I listen to the professors and jurists; and, my mind full of their seductive doctrines, I admire the peace and justice established by the civil order; I bless the wisdom of our political institutions and, knowing myself a citizen, cease to lament I am a man. Thoroughly instructed as to my duties and my happiness, I close the book, step out of the lecture room, and look around me. I see wretched nations groaning beneath a yoke of iron. I see mankind ground down by a handful of oppressors, I see a famished mob, worn down by sufferings and famine, while the rich drink the blood and tears of their victims at their ease. I see on every side the strong armed with the terrible powers of the Law against the weak.

And all this is done quietly and without resistance. It is the peace of Ulysses and his comrades, imprisoned in the cave of the Cyclops and waiting their turn to be devoured. We must groan and be silent. Let us for ever draw a veil over sights so terrible. I lift my eyes and look to the horizon. I see fire and flame, the fields laid waste, the towns put to sack. Monsters! where are you dragging the hapless wretches? I hear a hideous noise. What a tumult and what cries! I draw near; before me lies a scene of murder, ten thousand slaughtered, the dead piled in heaps, the dying trampled under foot by horses, on every side the image of death and the throes of death. And that is the fruit of your peaceful institutions! Indignation and pity rise from the very bottom of my heart. Yes, heartless philosopher! come and read us your book on a field of battle!
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Desear no es querer. Se desea lo que se sabe que no dura. Se quiere lo que se sabe que es eterno
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The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.
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The natural man lives for himself; he is the unit, the whole, dependent only on himself and on his like. The citizen is but the numerator of a fraction, whose value depends on its denominator; his value depends upon the whole, that is, on the community. Good social institutions are those best fitted to make a man unnatural, to exchange his independence for dependence, to merge the unit in the group, so that he no longer regards himself as one, but as a part of the whole, and is only conscious of the common life.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. d'Alembert on the Theatre
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I have somewhere read of a wise bishop who in a visit to his diocese found an old woman whose only prayer consisted in the single interjection "Oh!-

"Good mother" said he to her, "continue to pray in this manner; your prayer is better than ours." This better prayer is mine also.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.
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In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself
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El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty
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Politiek onderscheid leidt noodzakelijkerwijs tot onderscheid tussen de burgers. De toenemende ongelijkheid tussen het volk en zijn leiders doet zich weldra ook voelen tussen de individuen, en neemt naar gelang de hartstochten, talenten en omstandigheden duizend gedaanten aan.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Het is heel moeilijk iemand tot gehoorzaamheid te brengen die niet zlf zoekt te bevelen. Ook met het handigste beleid slaagt men er niet in mensen te onderwerpen die slechts vrij willen zijn.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Lharmonie, me disait-il, nest quun accessoire loign dans la musique imitative; il ny a dans lharmonie proprement dite aucun principe dimitation. Elle assure, il est vrai, les intonations; elle porte tmoignage de leur justesse; et, rendant les modulations plus sensibles, elle ajoute de lnergie  lexpresson, et de la grce au chant. Mais cest de la seule mlodie que sort cette puissance invincible des accents passions; cest delle que drive tout le pouvoir de la musique sur lme. Formez les plus savantes successions daccords sans mlange de mlodie, vous serez ennuys au bout dun quart dheure. De beaux chants sans aucune harmonie sont longtemps  lpreuve de lennui. Que laccent du sentiment anime les chants les plus simples, ils seront intressants. Au contraire, une mlodie qui ne parle point chante toujours mal, et la seule harmonie na jamais rien su dire au coeur.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, Ou La Nouvelle Heloise. Lettres de Deux Amans, Habitans D'Une Petite Ville Au Pied Des Alpes. Recueillies Et Publiees Volume 2
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This is mine", and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: "Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
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A father has done but a third of his task when he begets children and provides a living for them. He owes men to humanity, citizens to the state. A man who can pay this threefold debt and neglect to do so is guilty, more guilty, perhaps, if he pays it in part than when he neglects it entirely. He has no right to be a father if he cannot fulfil a father's duties. Poverty, pressure of business, mistaken social prejudices, none of these can excuse a man from his duty, which is to support and educate his own children.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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 The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders; and it is not in his mind we must look for that philosophy, which man must have to know how to observe once, what he has every day seen."  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Inequality among Mankind, Ch. 1, 20.
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There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the age at which, had you your wish, your species had stopped. Uneasy at your present condition for reasons which threaten your unhappy posterity with still greater uneasiness, you will perhaps wish it were in your power to go back; and this sentiment ought to be considered, as the panegyric of your first parents, the condemnation of you contemporaries, and a source of terror to all those who may have the misfortune of succeeding you.
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When innocent and
virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions,
they lived with them in the same huts. But having soon become
evil, they grew weary of these inconvenient spectators and
relegated them to magnificent temples.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau: Avec Des Notes Historiques, Volume 9
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I will simply ask: What is philosophy? What do the
writings of the best known philosophers contain? What are the
lessons of these friends of wisdom? To listen to them, would
one not take them for a troupe of charlatans crying out in a
public square, each from his own corner: "Come to me. I'm the
only one who is not wrong"?
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau: Avec Des Notes Historiques, Volume 9
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Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think of great things, princes will more rarely carry out fine actions, and the people will continue to be vile, corrupt, and unhappy.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau: Avec Des Notes Historiques, Volume 9
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau: Avec Des Notes Historiques, Volume 9
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Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
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Whoever is endowed with a power superior to mankind, should also be above the weakness of humanity, without which, that excess of strength would, in effect, only sink him below the most feeble, or what he would actually have been, had he remained their equal.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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 Ktlk yapan her insan, toplumun haklarn inerken iledii ar sularla yurduna bakaldrm ve hainlik etmi olur; yasalar inemekle yurdun yesi olmaktan kar, hatta ona sava am olur. O zaman devletin korunmasyla onunki badaamaz; ikisinden birinin yok olmas gerekir ve sulu ldrlrse, artk bir yurtta olarak deil, bir dman olarak ldrlr. Yarglama ve karar, onun toplum szlemesini inediini ve dolaysyla devletin yesi olmaktan ktn gsterir. Hi deilse, devletin topraklarnda yaam olmakla kendini devletin yesi bildii iin, szlemeye aykr davranm bir insan diye srgn edilerek, halk dman diye de ldrlerek devletten atlmaldr. nk byle bir dman bir tzel kii deil, bir insandr. Byle bir durumdaysa sava hukuku yenilenin ldrlmesini gerektirir. 
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplum Szlemesi
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Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condicin de hombre.
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Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste
have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and
misleading uniformity governs our customs, and all minds seem
to have been cast in the same mould: incessantly politeness
makes demands, propriety issues orders, and incessantly people
follow customary usage, never their own inclinations. One does
not dare to appear as what one is. And in this perpetual
constraint, men who make up this herd we call society, placed in
the same circumstances, will all do the same things, unless more
powerful motives prevent them. Thus, one will never know well
the person one is dealing with.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau: Avec Des Notes Historiques, Volume 9
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract
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La jeunesse est le temps d'tudier la sagesse; la vieillesse est le temps de la pratiquer.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, rveries du promeneur solitaire, Les
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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The worst education is to leave him floating between his will and yours, and to dispute endlessly between you and him as to which of the two will be the master.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
French philosopher and writer.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, or the New Heloise
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau
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We no longer dare seem what we really are, but lie under a perpetual restraint; in the meantime the herd of men, which we call society, all act under the same circumstances exactly alike, unless very particular and powerful motives prevent them. Thus we never know with whom we have to deal; and even to know our friends we must wait for some critical and pressing occasion; that it, till it is too late; for it is on those very occasion that such knowledge is of use to us.
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...the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects.
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All our wisdom consists in servile prejudices. All our practices are only subjection, impediment, and constraint. Civil man is born, lives, and dies in slavery. At his birth he is sewed in swaddling clothes; at his death he is nailed in a coffin. So long as he keeps his human shape, he is enchained by our institutions.
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Sovereignty, for the same reason as makes it in alienable, cannot be represented; it lies essentially in the general will, and will does not admit of representation: it is either the same, or other; there is no intermediate possibility. The deputies of the people, therefore, are not and cannot be its representatives: they are merely its stewards, and can carry through no definitive acts. Every law the people has not ratified in person is null and void -- is in fact, not a law. The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing. The use it makes of the short moments of liberty enjoys shows indeed that it deserves to lose them.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages" Pt.1, 41
 Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'ingalit parmi les hommes
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Rsumons en quatre mots le pacte social des deux tats. Vous avez besoin de moi, car je suis riche et vous tes pauvre ; faisons donc un accord entre nous : je permettrai que vous ayez l'honneur de me servir,  condition que vous me donnerez le peu qui vous reste pour la peine que je prendrai de vous commander.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Political Economy
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Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a rgime. Genuine
Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and dont much mind: this short life counts for too little in their eyes.
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In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereigns business. Having no standing in the other world, the sovereign has no concern with what may lie in wait for its subjects in the life to come, provided they are good citizens in this life.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success.
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just happened to me. I did not know who I was, nor where I was; I felt neither pain, fear, nor anxiety. I watched my blood flowing as I might have watched a stream, without even thinking that the blood had anything to do with me. I felt throughout my whole being such a wonderful calm, that whenever I recall this feeling I can find nothing to compare with it in all the pleasures that stir our lives.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those rustic dwelling places where, back then, moderation and virtue lived? What fatal splendour has succeeded Roman simplicity? What is this strange language? What are these effeminate customs? What do these statues signify, these paintings, these buildings? You mad people, what have you done? You, masters of nations, have you turned yourself into the slaves of the frivolous men you conquered? Are you now governed by rhetoricians? Was it to enrich architects, painters, sculptors, and comic actors that you soaked Greece and Asia with your blood? Are the spoils of Carthage trophies for a flute player? Romans, hurry up and tear down these amphitheatres, break up these marbles, burn these paintings, chase out these slaves who are subjugating you, whose fatal arts are corrupting you. Let other hands distinguish themselves with vain talents. The only talent worthy of Rome is that of conquering the world and making virtue reign there. When Cineas took our Senate for an assembly of kings, he was not dazzled by vain pomp or by affected elegance. He did not hear there this frivolous eloquence, the study and charm of futile men. What then did Cineas see that was so majestic? O citizens! He saw a spectacle which your riches or your arts could never produce, the most beautiful sight which has ever appeared under heaven, an assembly of two hundred virtuous men, worthy of commanding in Rome and governing the earth.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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When I stay in one Place,
I can hardly think at all;
my body had to be on the move to set my mind going."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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La libert n'est dans aucune forme de gouvernement, elle est dans le coeur de l'homme libre ; il la porte partout avec lui. L'homme vil porte partout la servitude. L'un serait esclave  Genve, et l'autre libre  Paris.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Les paysannes mangent moins de viande et plus de lgumes que les femmes de la ville ; et ce rgime vgtal parat plus favorable que contraire  elles et  leurs enfants.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice,it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses. If we are to avoid mistake in weighing one against the other, we must clearly distinguish natural liberty, which is bounded only by the strength of the individual, from civil liberty, which is limited by the general will; and possession, which is merely the effect of force or the right of the first occupier, from property, which can be founded only on a positive title.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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We may add that frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or remissness on the part of the government. There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isnt a benefitits a burdensome responsibility that cant fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another
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Het nietsontziende despotisme van de huidige maatschappij heeft volstrekt niets van doen met de zachtaardige gezagsuitoefenng van een vader, die meer gericht is op het voordeel van degeen die gehoorzaamt dan op het nut voor degeen die beveelt; dat krachtens de natuurwet de vader slechts zolang het gezag over het kind heeft als het kind zijn bijstand nodig heeft, dat zij daarna op gelijke voet komen en het kind volstrekt onafhankelijk wordt van zijn vader.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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La plupart des savants le sont  la manire des enfants. La vaste rudition rsulte moins d'une multitude d'ides que d'une multitude d'images. Les dates, les noms propres, les lieux, tous les objets isols ou dnus d'ides, se retiennent uniquement par la mmoire des signes, et rarement se rappelle-t-on quelqu'une de ces choses sans voir en mme temps le recto ou le verso de la page o on l'a lue, ou la figure sous laquelle on la vit la premire fois. Telle tait  peu prs la science  la mode des sicles derniers. Celle de notre sicle est autre chose: on n'tudie plus, on n'observe plus; on rve, et l'on nous donne gravement pour de la philosophie les rves de quelques mauvaises nuits. On me dira que je rve aussi; j'en conviens: mais, ce que les autres n'ont garde de faire, je donne mes rves pour des rves, laissant chercher au lecteur s'ils ont quelque chose d'utile aux gens veills.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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It is in order not to become victim of an assassin that we consent to die if
we become assassins.
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.
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Sors de l'enfance, ami, reville-toi!
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One advantage resulting from good actions is that they elevate the soul to a disposition of attempting still better; for such is human weakness, that we must place among our good deeds an abstinence from those crimes we are tempted to commit.
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Self-esteem is the strongest incentive to elevated souls: self-pride, fertile in illusions, often disguises itself, and is mistaken for the former; but when once the fraud is discovered, the danger ceases; for though it is difficult to eradicate it entirely, it may easily be kept in subjection.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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so true it is that pleasure does not depend on extravagance, and that joy is as readily purchased by pence as pounds.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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La extrema desigualdad en el modo de vivir, el exceso de ociosidad en unos y de trabajo en otros, la facilidad de excitar y de satisfacer nuestros apetitos y nuestra sensualidad, los alimentos tan apreciados de los ricos, que los nutren de substancias excitantes y los colman de indigestiones; la psima alimentacin de los pobres, de la cual hasta carecen frecuentemente, carencia que los impulsa, si la ocasin se presenta, a atracarse vidamente; las vigilias, los excesos de toda especie, los transportes inmoderados de todas las pasiones, las fatigas y el agotamiento espiritual, los pesares y contrariedades que se sienten en todas las situaciones, los cuales corroen perpetuamente el alma: he ah las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra, casi todos los cuales hubiramos evitado conservando la manera de vivir simple, uniforme y solitaria que nos fue prescrita por la naturaleza. Si ella nos ha destinado a ser sanos, me atrevo casi a asegurar que el estado de reflexin es un estado contra la naturaleza, y que el hombre que medita es un animal degenerado.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombre
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Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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How many centuries must have elapsed before men reached the point of seeing any other fire than that in the sky?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
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Ds lors qu'elle dpend  la fois de sa propre conscience et des opinions des autres, il faut qu'elle apprenne  comparer ces deux rgles,  les concilier, et  ne prfrer la premire que quand elles sont en opposition. [...] Rien de tout cela ne peut bien se faire sans cultiver son esprit ou sa raison.
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How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
 Jean Jaques Rousseau
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Terimi tam anlam ile ele alrsak, hakiki demokrasi hi bir zaman mevcut olmad gibi bundan sonra da olmayacaktr. ok saydakilerin az saydakileri idaresi tabii nizama aykrdr.
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Mans first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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A falsidade tem uma infinidade de combinaes, mas a verdade s tem um modo de ser
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Never have I thought so much, never have I realised my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself ... as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place ; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work. The sight of the country, the succession of beautiful scenes ... releases my soul, gives me greater courage of thought, throws me as it were into the midst of the immensity of the objects of Nature ... my heart, surveying one object after another, unites itself, identifies itself with those in sympathy with it, surrounds itself with delightful images, intoxicates itself with emotions the most exquisite.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Well, the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesnt give
out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions.
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Hasta entonces me haba hablado de m solo, como a un nio; desde aquel momento empez a tratarme como a un hombre, y me habl de s misma. Me
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It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a man exempt from fears and desires should take the trouble to reason.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
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aunque nazca uno con algn talento, el arte de escribir no se aprende repentinamente. Remit
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mbtrnesc nvnd mereu. Solon i spunea adesea acest vers la btrnee. Are un sens n care l-a putea spune i eu la btrnee; dar trist de tot e tiina pe care, de douzeci de ani ncoace, mi-a dat-o experiena: netiina ar fi de preferat. Restritea e fr ndoial un mare nvtor, dar leciile ei se pltesc scump, i adesea folosul ce-l aduc nu se ridic la preul ostenelilor. De altfel, pn s-i nsueti nvmintele primite prin nite lecii att de trzii, prilejul de a le folosi a i trecut. nvarea nelepciunii e o treab a tinereii; btrneea caut s-o pun n practic. Experiena te nva oricnd, recunosc; dar ea nu-i aduce foloase dect pentru timpul pe care-l mai ai n fa. n clipa morii, mai e oare cazul s afli cum ar fi trebuit s trieti?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confesiuni III
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Toute ducation des femmes doit tre relative aux hommes (...) La femme est fait pour cder  l'homme et pour supporter ses injustices.
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La vida ambulante es la que mejor me conviene. Ir de camino con buen tiempo, por un pas hermoso, sin llevar prisa, y tener un objeto agradable por trmino del viaje, he ah, de todos los modos de vivir, el que ms me agrada.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any power over me and henceforward I can laugh at them. It
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Das einzige Mittel, den Irrtum zu vermeiden, ist die Unwissenheit.
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The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Doubt with regard to what we ought to know is a condition too violent for the human mind; it cannot long be endured; in spite of itself the mind decides one way or another, and it prefers to be deceived rather than to believe nothing.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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L'adversit sans doute est un grand matre, mais il fait payer cher ses leons, et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut pas le prix qu'elles ont cot.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, rveries du promeneur solitaire, Les
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How have a hundred men who wish for a master the right to vote on behalf of ten who do not? The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least. 6.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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if you study in order to instruct, and herbalize only to become author or professor, all its attractive charms vanish, and plants, being no longer considered but as instruments of our passions, no more real pleasure can result from the study of them. Our end, then, is not to gain knowledge, but to make others sensible of our acquirements;
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts,...

...but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
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 prendre le terme dans la rigueur de l'acception, il n'a jamais exist de vritable dmocratie, et il n'en existera jamais.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Sovereignty, for the same reason as makes it inalienable, cannot be represented; it lies essentially in the general will, and will does not admit of representation: it is either the same, or other; there is no intermediate possibility. The
deputies of the people, therefore, are not and cannot be its representatives: they are merely its stewards, and can carry through no definitive acts. Every law the people has not ratified in person is null and void  is in fact, not a law. The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected,
slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing. The use it makes of the short moments of liberty it enjoys shows indeed that it deserves to lose them.
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I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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I conceive two species of inequality among men; one which I call natural, or physical inequality, because it is established by nature, and consists in the difference of age, health, bodily strength, and the qualities of the mind, or of the soul; the other which may be termed moral, or political inequality, because it depends on a kind of convention, and is established, or at least authorized, by the common consent of mankind. This species of inequality consists in the different privileges, which some men enjoy, to the prejudice of others, such as that of being richer, more honoured, more powerful, and even that of exacting obedience from them.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
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the despot assures his subjects civil tranquillity.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract
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The extreme inequalities in the manner of living of the several classes of mankind, the excess of idleness in some, and of labour in others, the facility of irritating and satisfying our sensuality and our appetites, the too exquisite and out of the way aliments of the rich, which fill them with fiery juices, and bring on indigestions, the unwholesome food of the poor, of which even, bad as it is, they very often fall short, and the want of which tempts them, every opportunity that offers, to eat greedily and overload their stomachs; watchings, excesses of every kind, immoderate transports of all the passions, fatigues, waste of spirits, in a word, the numberless pains and anxieties annexed to every condition, and which the mind of man is constantly a prey to; these are the fatal proofs that most of our ills are of our own making, and that we might have avoided them all by adhering to the simple, uniform and solitary way of life prescribed to us by nature.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
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others, without further ceremony ascribing to the strongest an authority over the weakest, have immediately struck out government, without thinking of the time requisite for men to form any notion of the things signified by the words authority and government. All of them, in fine, constantly harping on wants, avidity, oppression, desires and pride, have transferred to the state of nature ideas picked up in the bosom of society. In speaking of savages they described citizens. Nay, few of our own writers seem to have so much as doubted, that a state of nature did once actually exit; though it plainly appears by Sacred History, that even the first man, immediately furnished as he was by God himself with both instructions and precepts, never lived in that state, and that, if we give to the books of Moses that credit which every Christian philosopher ought to give to them, we must deny that, even before the deluge, such a state ever existed among men, unless they fell into it by some extraordinary event: a paradox very difficult to maintain, and altogether impossible to prove.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
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Daha iyi deilim belki, ama en azndan bakaym.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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O man, whatever country you may belong to, whatever your opinions may be, attend to my words; you shall hear your history such as I think I have read it, not in books composed by those like you, for they are liars, but in the book of nature which never lies. All that I shall repeat after her, must be true, without any intermixture of falsehood, but where I may happen, without intending it, to introduce my own conceits. The times I am going to speak of are very remote. How much you are changed from what you once were! 'Tis in a manner the life of your species that I am going to write, from the qualities which you have received, and which your education and your habits could deprave, but could not destroy. There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the age at which, had you your wish, your species had stopped. Uneasy at your present condition for reasons which threaten your unhappy posterity with still greater uneasiness, you will perhaps wish it were in your power to go back; and this sentiment ought to be considered, as the panegyric of your first parents, the condemnation of your contemporaries, and a source of terror to all those who may have the misfortune of succeeding you.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
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The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and shelter to every species of animals. Men, dispersed among them, observe and imitate their industry, and thus rise to the instinct of beasts; with this advantage, that, whereas every species of beasts is confined to one peculiar instinct, man, who perhaps has not any that particularly belongs to him, appropriates to himself those of all other animals, and lives equally upon most of the different aliments, which they only divide among themselves; a circumstance which qualifies him to find his subsistence, with more ease than any of them.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
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Die Gewohnheit hat mich das Landleben so sehr liebgewinnen lassen, dass ich sofort vor Traurigkeit sterben wrde, knnte ich keine blhenden Bume mehr von Nahem sehen; das ist wohl keine gute Ausgangslage, um die schwarzen Dmpfe in den Straen dieser groen Stadt einzuatmen, ().

[Rousseau an Comtesse de Boufflers, Mtiers-Travers, 20. August 1762]
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leben Sie wohl fr immer: Die Affre Hume-Rousseau in Briefen und Zeitdokumenten
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Vague assertions as to the equality of the sexes and the similarity of their duties are only empty words; they are no answer to my argument. It is a poor sort of logic to quote isolated exceptions against laws so firmly established. Women, you say, are not always bearing children.

Granted; yet that is their proper business. Because there are a hundred or so of large towns in the world where women live licentiously and have few children, will you maintain that it is their business to have few children? And what would become of your towns if the remote country districts, with their simpler and purer women, did not make up for the barrenness of your fine ladies? There are plenty of country places where women with only four or five children are reckoned unfruitful. In conclusion, although here and there a woman may have few children, what difference does it make? Is it any the less a woman's business to be a mother? And do not the general laws of nature and morality make provision for this state of things?

Even if there were these long intervals, which you assume, between the periods of pregnancy, can a woman suddenly change her way of life without danger? Can she be a nursing mother to-day and a soldier tomorrow? Will she change her tastes and her feelings as a chameleon changes his color? Will she pass at once from the privacy of household duties and indoor occupations to the buffeting of the winds, the toils, the labors, the perils of war? Will she be now timid, now brave, now fragile, now robust? If the young men of Paris find a soldier's life too hard for them, how would a woman put up with it, a woman who has hardly ventured out of doors without a parasol and who has scarcely put a foot to the ground? Will she make a good soldier at an age when even men are retiring from
this arduous business?

There are countries, I grant you, where women bear and rear children with little or no difficulty, but in those lands the men go half-naked in all weathers, they strike down the wild beasts, they carry a canoe as easily as a knapsack, they pursue the chase for 700 or 800 leagues, they sleep in the open on the bare ground, they bear incredible fatigues and go many days without food. When women become strong, men become still stronger; when men become soft, women become softer; change both the terms and the ratio remains unaltered.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some points without being united by a single one; everyone would remain isolated amongst the rest, everyone would think only of himself; our understanding would not develop; we would live without sensing anything, we would die without having lived; our entire happiness would consist of not knowing our misery; there would be neither goodness in our hearts, nor morality in our actions, and we would never have tasted the most delicious sentiment of the soul, which is the love of virtue.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings
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First, because, in the first case, the right of conquest being in fact no right at all, it could not serve as a foundation for any other right, the conqueror and the conquered ever remaining with respect to each other in a state of war, unless the conquered, restored to the full possession of their liberty, should freely choose their conqueror for their chief. Till then, whatever capitulations might have been made between them, as these capitulations were founded upon violence, and of course de facto null and void, there could not have existed in this hypothesis either a true society, or a political body, or any other law but that of the strongest. Second, because these words strong and weak, are ambiguous in the second case; for during the interval between the establishment of the right of property or prior occupation and that of political government, the meaning of these terms is better expressed by the words poor and rich, as before the establishment of laws men in reality had no other means of reducing their equals, but by invading the property of these equals, or by parting with some of their own property to them. Third, because the poor having nothing but their liberty to lose, it would have been the height of madness in them to give up willingly the only blessing they had left without obtaining some consideration for it: whereas the rich being sensible, if I may say so, in every part of their possessions, it was much easier to do them mischief, and therefore more incumbent upon them to guard against it; and because, in fine, it is but reasonable to suppose, that a thing has been invented by him to whom it could be of service rather than by him to whom it must prove detrimental.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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I believed in childhood by authority, in youth by sentiment, in my mature years by reason; now I believe because I have always believed.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings
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O tcere desvrit te ndeamn la tristee, e ca o icoan a morii.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confesiuni III
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The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.

("The Queen Fantasque")
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
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To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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On the other hand, nothing would have been so miserable as savage man, dazzled by enlightenment, tormented by passions, and reasoning about a state different from his own.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live but to make other believe they have lived!
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques: Dialogues
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Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'

("Queen Fantasque")
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
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Dizer que um homem se d gratuitamente  uma afirmao absurda e inconcebvel; tal ato  ilegtimo e nulo, to-somente porque aquele que o pratica no est de posse do seu bom-senso. Dizer a mesma coisa de todo um povo  supor uma nao de loucos e a loucura no cria direito.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract
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The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before. This is the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution. The
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Qu'il voie par ses yeux, qu'il sente par son coeur ; qu'aucune autorit ne le gouverne, hors celle de sa propre raison.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Can any position be more wretched than that of the unhappy father who, when he clasps his child to his breast, is haunted by the suspicion that this is the child of another, the badge of his own dishonor, a thief who is robbing his own children of their inheritance. Under such circumstances the family is little more than a group of secret enemies, armed against each other by a guilty woman, who compels them to pretend to love one another.

Thus it is not enough that a wife should be faithful; her husband, along with his friends and neighbors, must believe in her fidelity; she must be modest, devoted, retiring; she should have the witness not only of a good conscience, but of a good reputation. In a word, if a father must love his children, he must be able to respect their mother. For these reasons it is not enough that the woman should be chaste, she must preserve her reputation and her good name. From these principles there arises not only a moral difference between the sexes, but also a fresh motive for duty and propriety, which prescribes to women in particular the most scrupulous attention to their conduct, their manners, their behavior.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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J'aperois Dieu partout dans ses oeuvres ; je le sens en moi, je le vois tout autour de moi ; mais sitt que je veux le contempler en lui-mme, sitt que je veux chercher o il est, ce qu'il est, quelle est sa substance, il m'chappe et mon esprit troubl n'aperoit plus rien.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and the sciences, less despotic though perhaps more powerful, fling garlands of flowers over the chains which weight them down. They stifle in men's breasts that sense of original liberty, for which they seem to have been born; cause them to love their own slavery, and so make of them what is called a civilized people.
 Jean-Jaques Rousseau
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What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses. If we are to avoid mistake in weighing one against the other, we must clearly distinguish natural liberty, which is bounded only by the strength of the individual, from civil liberty, which is limited by the general will; and possession, which is merely the effect of force or the right of the first occupier, from property, which can be founded only on a positive title. We
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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On me dit qu'il fallait une rvlation pour apprendre aux hommes la manire dont Dieu voulait tre servi ; on assigne en preuve la diversit des cultes bizarres qu'ils ont institus, et l'on ne voit pas que cette diversit mme vient de la fantaisie des rvlations. Ds que les peuples se sont aviss de faire parler Dieu, chacun l'a fait parler  sa mode et lui a fait dire ce qu'il a voulu. Si l'on n'et cout que ce que Dieu dit au coeur de l'homme, il n'y aurait jamais eu qu'une religion sur la terre.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Dans tout pays qui se dpeuple, l'tat tend  sa ruine ; et le pays qui peuple le plus, ft-il le plus pauvre, est infailliblement le mieux gouvern.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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For the State, in relation to its members, is master of all their goods by the social contract, which, within the State, is the basis of all rights;
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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A misfortune never makes me uneasy provided I know in what it consists; but it is my nature to be afraid of darkness, I tremble at the appearance of it.

The sight of the most hideous monster would, I am of opinion, alarm me but little; but if by night I were to see a figure in a white sheet I should be afraid of it.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their colour, their breathing, their timid manner, their slight resistance, that is the language nature gave them for your answer. The lips always say 'No,' and rightly so; but the tone is not always the same, and that cannot lie. Has not a woman the same needs as a man, but without the same right to make them known? Her fate would be too cruel if she had no language in which to express her legitimate desires except the words which she dare not utter.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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Those who distinguish civil from theological intolerance are, to my mind, mistaken
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Niemand kmmert sich mehr um die Wirklichkeit; alle setzen ihr Wesen in den Schein. Als Sklaven und Narren ihrer Eigenliebe leben sie dahin, nicht um zu leben, sondern um andere glauben zu machen, sie htten gelebt.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent consent is to make use of all the violence permitted in love. To read it in the eyes, to see it in the ways in spite of the mouth's denial, that is the art of he who knows how to love. If he then completes his happiness, he is not brutal, he is decent. He does not insult chasteness; he respects it; he serves it.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Works of  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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We should not, with Warburton, conclude from this that politics and religion have among us a common object, but that, in the first periods of nations, the one is used as an instrument for the other.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Since these conveniences by becoming habitual had almost entirely ceased to be enjoyable, and at the same time degenerated into true needs, it became much more cruel to be deprived of them than to possess them was sweet, and men were unhappy to lose them without being happy to possess them.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Tom gusto por esta recreacin de los ojos que en el infortunio descansa, distrae, divierte al espritu y suspende el sentido de las cuitas. La naturaleza de los objetos ayuda mucho a esta diversin y la hace ms seductora. Los suaves olores, los colores vivos, las ms elegantes formas parecen disputarse a porfa el derecho a fijar nuestras atencin. Para entregarse a tan dulces sensaciones, tan slo hace falta amar el placer, y si este efecto no se produce en todos aquellos que son impresionados por ellas, es por falta de sensibilidad natural en unos, y en la mayora porque, demasiado ocupado su espritu en otras ideas, no se entrega sino a hurtadillas a los objetos que impresionan sus sentidos.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Ne veut-on pas au moins apprendre de l'objet qu'on aime si l'on est aim?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Dans cet ge heureux o rien ne marquait les heures, rien n'obligeait  les compter, le temps n'avait d'autre mesure que l'amusement et l'ennui.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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En cuanto a m, siempre que he deseado aprender ha sido para saber yo mismo y no para ensear; siempre he credo que antes de ensear a los dems era menester comenzar por saber lo bastante para s, y, de todos los estudios que he intentado hacer en mi vida en medio de los hombres, apenas hay alguno que no hubiera hecho igualmente solo en una isla desierta en la que hubiera estado confinado para el resto de mis das.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Cun interesante para contemplativos solitarios que gustan de embriagarse a placer con los encantos de la naturaleza, y de recogerse en un silencio que ningn otro ruido turba ms que el chillido de las guilas, el gorjeo entrecortado de algunos pjaros y el estrpito de los torrentes que caen de la montaa!
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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La desnudez, la falta de habitacin y la carencia de todas esas cosas intiles que tan necesarias creemos no constituyen, por consiguiente, una gran desdicha para esos primeros hombres ni un gran obstculo para su conservacin.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Plants are shaped by cultivation , and men by education .
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Ils travaillaient pour instruire les autres, mais non pas pour s'clairer au-dedans.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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La force a fait les premiers esclaves, leur lchet les a perptus.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Ecartons donc de mon esprit tous les penibles objets dont Je m'occuperais aussi doulouresement qu'inutilement...
Les rverie du promeneur solitaire
J.J. Rousseau
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Luai femeia cea mai cuminte, cea mai neleapt, cea mai puin stpnit de simuri; crima cea mai de neiertat pe care un brbat, cruia chiar dac i d prea puin atenie, poate s o svreasc fa de ea, este de a putea s o aib i a nu o face.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions
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Siempre justo sin parcialidad y siempre bueno sin debilidad, me habra preservado asimismo de las desconfianzas ciegas y de los odios implacables; porque viendo a los hombres tal cual son y leyendo tranquilamente en el fondo de sus corazones, habra encontrado pocos lo bastante amables como para merecer todo mis afectos, pocos lo bastante odiosos como para merecer todo mi odio, y su misma maldad me habra predispuesto a compadecerlos por el conocimiento certero del mal que se hacen a ellos mismos al querer hacrselo a otro.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour tre toujours le matre, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obissance en devoir.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Les peuples une fois accoutums  des matres ne sont plus en tat de s'en passer. S'ils tentent de secouer le joug, ils s'loignent d'autant plus de la libert, que, prenant pour elle une licence effrne qui lui est oppose, leurs rvolutions les livrent presque toujours  des sducteurs qui ne font qu'aggraver leurs chanes.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dgnre entre les mains de l'homme.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Je conois dans l'espce humaine deux sortes d'ingalits : l'une, que j'appelle naturelle ou physique, parce qu'elle est tablie par la nature, et qui consiste dans la diffrence des ges, de la sant, des forces du corps et des qualits de l'esprit ou de lme ; l'autre qu'on peut appeler ingalit morale ou politique parce qu'elle dpend d'une sorte de convention, et qu'elle est tablie ou du moins autorise par le consentement des hommes.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Amaba tan entraablemente su patria, que jams quiso dudar de que fuese tambin la ma por temor de perder la ocasin de hablar de ella.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Il parat encore que l'organisation du cerveau est moins parfaite aux deux extrmes. Les Ngres ni les Lapons n'ont pas le sens des Europens. Si je veux donc que mon lve puisse tre habitant de la terre, je le prendrai dans une zone tempre ; en France, par exemple, plutt qu'ailleurs.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Cuando hay que hacer lo contrario de mi voluntad, no lo hago, ocurra lo que ocurra; tampoco hago mi voluntad, porque soy dbil. Me abstengo de actuar: dado que toda mi debilidad es para la accin, toda mi fuerza es negativa, y todos mis pecados son de omisin, raramente de comisin.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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No s muy bien qu clase de jerga cientfica, ms despreciable an que la ignorancia, haba usurpado el nombre a la sabidura y para impedir su vuelta le pona obstculos casi insalvables. Se
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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IN order to discover the rules of society best suited to nations, a superior intelligence beholding all the passions of men without experiencing any of them would be needed.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Al igual que el cuerpo, el espritu tiene necesidades. Las de aqul constituyen los fundamentos de la sociedad, las de ste son su recreo. Mientras
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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Plus le corps est faible, plus il commande ; plus il est fort, plus il obit.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Nikdy jsem nemyslil, e svoboda lovka by zleela v tom, aby dlal, co chce, nbr sp, aby nikdy nedlal, co nechce, a to je svoboda, j jsem se vdy dovolval, asto ji zachovval a pro kterou jsem byl nejvce svm vrstevnkm k pohoren
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Les villes sont le gouffre de l'espce humaine.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Las galas no tienen nada que ver con la virtud, que es la fuerza y el vigor del alma. El hombre de bien es un atleta que se complace en combatir desnudo: desprecia todos los viles ornatos que estorbaran la utilizacin de sus fuerzas y que no han sido inventados en su mayora sino para esconder alguna deformidad.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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El verdadero objeto de mis confesiones es hacer comprender exactamente mi interior en todas las situaciones.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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L'homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu'il peut, et fait ce qu'il lui plat.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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la conscience du coupable vengerait assez l'innocent. Sa prdiction n'a pas t vaine; elle ne cesse pas un seul jour de s'accomplir.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us al, and that the earth itself belongs to nobody
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Origin of Inequality
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I have never believed that mans freedom consists in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do, and this is the freedom I have always sought after and often achieved, the freedom by virtue of which I have most scandalized my contemporaries. For they, being active, busy, ambitious, detesting freedom in others and not desiring it for themselves, as long as they can sometimes have their way, or rather prevent others from having theirs, they force themselves all their lives to do what they do not want to do and are willing to endure any servitude in order to command
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquieres
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I can understand how it is that city-dwellers, who see only walls and streets and crimes, have so little religion. But I cannot understand how those who live in the country, and the solitary especially, can be lacking in faith. How is it that their souls are not raised in ecstasy a hundred times a day to the Author of the wonders that strike their eyes?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Di solito si ottiene con tutta sicurezza e assai presto ci che non si ha fretta di ottenere.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and that the earth itself belongs to nobody
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Origin of Inequality
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I would rather be exposed to all their torments than be obliged to think about them in order to protect myself from their attacks.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquieres
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Nada manifiesta tanto las verdaderas inclinaciones de un hombre como las clases de relaciones que contrae '.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Si je ne considrais que la force et leffet qui en drive, je dirais :  Tant quun peuple est contraint dobir et quil obit, il fait bien ; sitt quil peut secouer le joug, et quil le secoue, il fait encore mieux : car, recouvrant sa libert par le mme droit qui la lui a ravie, ou il est fond  la reprendre, ou on ne ltait point  la lui ter . Mais lordre social est un droit sacr qui sert de base  tous les autres. Cependant, ce droit ne vient point de la nature ; il est donc fond sur des conventions. Il sagit de savoir quelles sont ces conventions.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Dad dinero, y pronto tendris cadenas
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Las distracciones de mis diarios paseos se han llenado a menudo de encantadoras contemplaciones cuyo recuerdo me lastimo de haber perdido. Fijar por medio de la escritura las que an me vengan a la mente; gozar cada vez que las relea.
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Or, si lon compare la diversit prodigieuse dducations et de genres de vie qui rgne dans les diffrents ordres de ltat civil, avec la simplicit et luniformit de la vie animale et sauvage, o tous se nourrissent des mmes aliments, vivent de la mme manire, et font exactement les mmes choses, on comprendra combien la diffrence dhomme  homme doit tre moindre dans ltat de nature que dans celui de socit, et combien lingalit naturelle doit augmenter dans lespce humaine par lingalit dinstitution.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Vis selon la nature, sois patient, & chasse les mdecins; tu nviteras pas la mort, mais tu ne la sentiras quune fois, tandis quils la portent chaque jour dans ton imagination trouble, & que leur art mensonger, au lieu de prolonger tes jours, ten te la jouissance. Je demanderai toujours quel vrai bien cet art a fait aux hommes. Quelques-unes de ceux quil gurit mourraient, il est vrai; mais des millions quil tue resteraient en vie. Homme sens, ne mets point  cette loterie, o trop de chances sont contre toi. Souffre, meurs ou guris; mais surtout vis jusqu ta dernire heure.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, mile, ou De l'ducation
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A vontade fala, ainda quando a natureza se cala.
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De manera que, ponindome en el lugar del orculo y preguntndome qu es lo que preferira ser, lo que soy yo o lo que son ellos, saber lo que ellos han aprendido o saber que no s nada, me he respondido a m mismo y al Dios: Quiero seguir siendo lo que soy.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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Los lmites de lo posible en las cosas morales son ms estrechos de lo que pensamos; nuestras debilidades, nuestros vicios, nuestros prejuicios son lo que restringen
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Two years ago, having been walking towards La Nouvelle France, I turned to the left, and willing to extend my walk round Montmartre, crossed the village of Clignancourt. As I walked along, thoughtful, and regardless of the surrounding objects, I felt something clasp my knees, and immediately perceived it was a child of about five or six years old, clinging round them, who at the same time looked up so fondly and familiarly in my face, that I was greatly moved, saying to myself, "thus I should have been treated by my own." I took the child in my arms, and after having kissed it several times, in a kind of transport, continued my way. I felt as I walked on that something was wanting to complete my satisfaction, and this obliged me to return. I reproached myself with having quitted the child so soon, thinking I had discovered in its manner a kind of inspiration, which ought not to have been slighted. Giving into the temptation, I ran towards the child, embraced it again, and gave him money to buy some small Nanterre loaves, a man who sold them happening to be passing by. J began to make him talk; and on asking who's son he was? He pointed to a man that was hooping some barrels. I was just preparing to quit the child, in order to speak to the father, when I was prevented by seeing a man whisper him, who appeared to be one of those spies who are ever at my heels. While this person was speaking, I remarked that the cooper's eyes were fixed attentively on me, with no very friendly aspect: this sight contracted my heart in an instant, and I quitted both father and child, with greater expedition than I had returned to them; but with a sensation less agreeable, and which altered my whole chain of feelings. I have, notwithstanding, frequently felt these sentiments revive, and have often passed Clignancourt, in hopes of seeing this child again, but have never since met either with him or his father, and the only result of this encounter is, a lively remembrance, intermingled with that pleasing melancholy which is natural to me in all those emotions that penetrate my heart.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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aunque estas personas no sepan nada, todas creen saber algo. Mientras que yo, si no s nada, al menos no tengo esa duda. De
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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Si queremos formar una institucin duradera, no pensemos en hacerla eterna
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Hu tm c nhng lut l ca x hi thch ng nht cho cc quc gia, cn phi c mt ngi c s thng minh siu tuyt  c th thu hiu nhng nhit tnh ca con ngi m vn khng b nh hng ca tht tnh, lc dc; mt con ngi m hnh phc c lp vi con ngi nhng li quan tm n hnh phc ca con ngi; mt con ngi m sn sng lm vic  i ny cho kt qu  i sau. Ch c thn thnh mi l mt "ngi" nh vy.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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De manera que toda esta superioridad de sabidura que me otorga el orculo se reduce nicamente a estar convencido completamente de que ignoro todo lo que no s.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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Un homme tait-il minent en pouvoir, en vertu, en richesses ou en crdit, il fut seul lu magistrat, et ltat devint monarchique. Si plusieurs,  peu prs gaux entre eux, lemportaient sur tous les autres, ils furent lus conjointement, et lon eut une aristocratie. Ceux dont la fortune ou les talents taient moins disproportionns, et qui staient le moins loigns de ltat de nature, gardrent en commun ladministration suprme, et formrent une dmocratie.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Trn ht, ta c th ni rng, trong tnh trng vn minh, con ngi cn th c thm t do lun l m ch c n mi bin con ngi thnh ch nhn ch thc ca chnh mnh, bi v chiu theo dc vng l n l, v tun hnh lut l do chnh mnh t ra l c c t do.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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He aqu cmo el lujo, la disolucin y la esclavitud han sido en todo tiempo el castigo a los esfuerzos orgullosos que hemos hecho para salir de la feliz ignorancia donde nos haba situado la sabidura eterna. El
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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He observado en las vicisitudes de una larga vida que las pocas de los ms dulces goces y de los placeres ms vivos no son, sin embargo, aqullas cuya remembranza me atrae y me afecta ms. Esos cortos momentos de delirio y de pasin, por vivos que puedan ser, no son, sin embargo, y por su misma vivacidad, sino puntos muy esparcidos por la lnea de la vida.
Son demasiado raros y demasiado rpidos como para constituir un estado, y la dicha que mi corazn aora no se compone de instantes fugitivos sino de un estado simple y permanente, que nada tiene de vivo en s mismo, pero cuya duracin acrecienta el encanto hasta el punto de encontrar por fin en l la suprema felicidad.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Los hombres son perversos; seran peores an si hubieran tenido la desgracia de nacer sabiendo.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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Renoncer  sa libert c'est renoncer  sa qualit d'homme
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Hallando en cada enfermedad sntomas de la ma, crea tenerlas todas y contraje una ms cruel de que me conceptuaba libre: el anhelo de curar; y es una enfermedad difcil de evitar cuando se leen libros de medicina.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Singur, n-am cunoscut niciodat plictiseala, chiar atunci cnd nu fceam nimic: imaginaia mea, umplnd toate golurile, era ea singur de ajuns spre a m ine ocupat.
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Renoncer  sa libert c'est renoncer  sa qualit d'homme, aux droits de l'humanit, mme  ses devoirs.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Suffer, die, or get better; but whatever you do, live while you are alive.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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J'arrive  Turin sans habits, sans argent, sans linge, et laissant trs exactement  mon seul mrite tout l'honneur de la fortune que j'allais faire.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Todo en la tierra est en un continuo flujo: nada conserva una forma constante y quieta, y los afectos nuestros, que se vinculan a las cosas exteriores, pasan y cambian necesariamente como ellas. Siempre delante o detrs de nosotros, recuerdan el pasado que ya no es o previenen el porvenir que por lo comn no ser: no hay ah nada slido a lo que el corazn pueda agarrarse.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Lambition des principaux profita de ces circonstances pour perptuer leurs charges dans leurs familles ; le peuple, dj accoutum  la dpendance, au repos, et aux commodits de la vie, et dj hors dtat de briser ses fers, consentit  laisser augmenter sa servitude pour affermir sa tranquillit : et cest ainsi que les chefs, devenus hrditaires, saccoutumrent  regarder leur magistrature comme un bien de famille,  se regarder eux-mmes comme les propritaires de ltat, dont ils ntaient dabord que les officiers ;  appeler leurs concitoyens leurs esclaves,  les compter, comme du btail, au nombre des choses qui leur appartenaient ; et  sappeler eux-mmes gaux aux dieux, et rois des rois.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Los antiguos polticos hablaban continuamente de buenas costumbres y de virtud; los nuestros no hablan sino de comercio y de dinero. Uno
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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viva en tan grato sosiego distribuyendo el tiempo entre mi trabajo, mi instruccin y mis placeres,
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Personas de reconocida integridad colocadas en situaciones difciles, maridos engaados> mujeres seducidas, partos clandestinos, he aqu los asuntos ms comunes; y el que ms enriqueca la Casa de Expsitos era siempre el ms aplaudido.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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l'impulsion du seul apptit est esclavage, et l'obissance  la loi qu'on s'est prescrite est libert.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Las peras de Rameau empezaban a meter ruido y dieron a conocer sus obras tericas, que, habiendo permanecido ignoradas, posean muy pocos. Por casualidad o hablar de su Tratado de la armona,
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Fakat aramzda u ayrm var ki bu adamlar bir ey bilmedikleri halde her eyi bildiklerini sanyorlar; bense bir ey bilmemekle beraber hi olmazsa bilmediimden phe etmiyorum.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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Pero si hay un estado en el que el alma encuentra un acomodo lo bastante slido como para descansar en l por entero y congregar todo su ser, sin tener necesidad de recordar el pasado ni exceder del porvenir; donde el tiempo no exista para ella, donde el presente dure siempre sin sealar, no obstante, su duracin y si huella alguna de secuencia, sin ninguno otro sentimiento de privacin o de goce, de placer o de dolor, de deseo o de temor que el de nuestra existencia, y que este sentimiento nico pueda colmarla por entero; en tanto dura tal estado, quien se encuentre en l puede llamarse dichoso, no de una dicha imperfecta, pobre y relativa, tal cual se halla en los placeres de la vida, sino de una dicha suficiente, perfecta y plena que no deja en el alma ningn vaco que sta sienta la necesidad de llenar. Tal es el estado en que me encontr con frecuencia en la isla de Saint-Pierre en mis ensoaciones solitarias, ora tumbado en mi barca que dejaba derivar a merced del agua, ora sentado en las riberas del lago agitado, ora en otra parte, a orillas de un hermoso ro o de un arroyo murmurando por entre el guijarral.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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on ne connat d'o est un homme qu'aprs qu'il a parl.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Poblad igualmente el territorio, extended por todas partes los mismos derechos, llevad a todas ellas la abundancia y la vida; y de este modo el Estado llegar a ser al mismo tiempo el ms fuerte y el mejor gobernado de todos.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Cuando todo en mi derredor estaba en orden, cuando estaba contento con todo lo que me rodeaba y con la esfera en la que tena que vivir, la llenaba con mis afectos. Mi alma expansiva se extenda sobre otros objetos, y atrada sin cesar lejos de m por gustos de mil especies, por vnculos amables que sin cesar ocupaban mi corazn, me olvidaba en cierta manera de m mismo, participaba por entero de lo que me era extrao y senta en la continua agitacin de mi corazn toda la vicisitud de las cosas humanas. Esta tortuosa vida no me dejaba ni paz en los adentros, ni reposo fuera. En apariencia dichoso, `no tena un solo sentimiento que pudiera soportar la prueba de la reflexin y en el que pudiera deleitarme verdaderamente. Nunca estaba totalmente contento, ni de otro ni de m mismo. El tumulto del mundo me aturda, la soledad me hastiaba, tena continuamente necesidad de cambiar de sitio y no esta bien en ninguna parte. Sin embargo, era agasajado, muy estimado, bien recibido, acariciado por doquier. No tena un solo enemigo, ni malqueriente ni envidioso. Como no se buscaba sino complacerme, con frecuencia yo mismo tena el placer de complacer a mucha gente, y sin bienes, sin empleo, sin fautores, sin grandes talentos bien desarrollados ni bien conocidos, gozaba de las ventajas aadidas a todo aquello y no vea a nadie en estado alguno cuya suerte parecirame preferible a la ma. Que me faltaba entonces para ser feliz? Lo ignoro; pero s que no lo era.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Si nous suivons le progrs de lingalit dans ces diffrentes rvolutions, nous trouverons que ltablissement de la loi et du droit de proprit fut son premier terme, linstitution de la magistrature le second, que le troisime et dernier fut le changement du pouvoir lgitime en pouvoir arbitraire ; en sorte que ltat de riche et de pauvre fut autoris par la premire poque, celui de puissant et de faible par la seconde, et par la troisime celui de matre et desclave, qui est le dernier degr de lingalit, et le terme auquel aboutissent enfin tous les autres, jusqu ce que de nouvelles rvolutions dissolvent tout  fait le gouvernement, ou le rapprochent de linstitution lgitime.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Empecemos por distinguir en el sentimiento del amor lo moral y lo fsico. Lo fsico es ese deseo general que impulsa a un sexo a unirse con otro. Lo moral es lo que determina ese deseo y lo fija exclusivamente en un solo objeto, o que, por lo menos, le da haica ese objeto preferido un mayor grado de energa. Ahora bien; es fcil ver que lo moral del amor es un sentimiento facticio nacido del uso de la sociedad y elogiado por las mujeres con suma habilidad y cuidado para implantar su imperio y hacer dominante el sexo que deba obedecer.
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Cuando los hombres inocentes y virtuosos gustaban de tener a los dioses por testigos de sus actos, vivan juntos en las mismas cabaas; pero en seguida se volvieron malvados, se hastiaron de esos incmodos espectadores y los relegaron dentro de templos magnficos. Finalmente los expulsaron de ellos para establecerse ellos mismos; o, al menos, los templos de los dioses no se distinguieron ya de las casas de los ciudadanos. Fue
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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If I had remained free, obscure, and alone placed in the situation Nature designed me for, I should have done nothing but what was right, for my heart bears not the feeds of any mischievous passion. Had I been invisible and powerful as the Almighty, I should have been benevolent and good like him: it is power and freedom that make good men, weakness and slavery never made any but wicked ones.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Singular efecto de la gran conexin de caracteres!
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De dnde viene esta diferencia? De una sola cosa. Y es que he aprendido a llevar el yugo de la necesidad sin rechistar. Es que me esforc por tener apego a mil cosas y que, habindoseme escapado arreo todos estos asideros, reducido a m mismo, he recobrado por fin mi sitio. Hostigado por doquier, permanezco en equilibrio porque, al no atarme ya a nada, slo me apoyo en m.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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S que hay que ocupar a los nios en algo y que la ociosidad es para ellos el peligro ms temible. 
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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[...] fericirea dup care-mi jinduiete inima nu e compus din clipe fugare, ci e o stare simpl i permanent, fr nimic intens ntr-nsa, dar a crei dinuire i mrete farmecul ntr-atta, nct poi gsi n ea suprema fericire.
Totul este n venic curgere pe pmnt. Nimic nu pstreaz o form constant i definitiv, i afeciunile noastre fa de lucrurile exterioare sunt n mod necesar, ca i ele, trectoare i schimbtoare. Mereu naintea sau n urma noastr, ele amintesc trecutul, care nu mai e, sau anticipeaz asupra viitorului, care adesea nu se mplinete: nu exist nimic solid de care s-i poi lega inima. De aceea nu avem pe pmnt altfel de plceri dect trectoare; ct despre fericirea durabil, m ndoiesc c ar cunoate-o cineva. Abia dac exist, n mijlocul celor mai vii ale noastre bucurii, o clip n care inima s ne poat spune cu adevrat: a vrea ca aceast clip s in o venicie; i cum s numeti fericire o stare fugitiv care ne las inima tot nelinitit i goal, care ne face s regretm ceva n urm sau s dorim nc ceva dup?
Dar dac exist o stare n care sufletul i gsete un teren destul de ferm pentru desvrita lui odihn i pentru adunarea laolalt a ntregii sale fiine, fr a avea nevoie s evoce trecutul sau s anticipe asupra viitorului; o stare n care s nu-i pese de timp, n care prezentul s dinuie fr s se petreac i fr s scapete, fr s strneasc vreun sentiment de lips sau de plcere sau de durere, de dorin sau de team, ci doar pe acela al existenei, de care s fie covrit; atunci atta vreme ct ine starea asta, cel ce se gsete n ea se poate considera fericit, bucurndu-se, nu de o fericire imperfect, srccioas i relativ, ca aceea pe care ne-o dau plcerile vieii, ci de o fericire ndestultoare, desvrit i plin, ce nu las n suflet goluri pe care acesta s simt nevoia s le umple.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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El sentimiento de la existencia despojado de todo otro afecto es por s mismo un sentimiento precioso de contento y de paz que bastara por s solo para hacer dulce y querida esta existencia a quien supiera apartar de s todas las impresiones sensuales y terrenas que acuden incesantemente a distraernos y a turbar aqu abajo la dulzura. Pero la mayora de los hombres, agitados por continuas pasiones, conocen poco este estado, y no habindolo sentido sino imperfectamente durante escasos instantes, no conservan de l ms que una idea oscura y confusa que no les hace apreciar su encanto.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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he ah las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra,
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombre
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El hombre ha nacido libre, y en todas partes se halla entre cadenas.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, El Contrato Social
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ni acerca de un libro si es til, sino si est bien escrito. Las
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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La integridad de un hombre de bien es siempre antiptica a los malvados.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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mientras que un pueblo se ve forzado a obedecer, hace bien, si obedece; tan pronto como puede sacudir el yugo, si lo sacude, obra mucho mejor; pues recobrando su libertad por el mismo derecho con que se la han quitado, o tiene motivos para recuperarla, o no tenan ninguno para privarle de ella los que tal hicieron. Pero el orden social es un derecho sagrado que sirve de base a todos los dems. Este derecho, sin embargo, no viene de la naturaleza; luego se funda en convenciones.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, El Contrato Social
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Cest ainsi quil dut venir un temps o les yeux du peuple furent fascins  tel point que ses conducteurs navaient qu dire au plus petit des hommes, Sois grand, toi et toute ta race, aussitt il paraissait grand  tout le monde ainsi qu ses propres yeux, et ses descendants slevaient encore  mesure quils sloignaient de lui ; plus la cause tait recule et incertaine, plus leffet augmentait ; plus on pouvait compter de fainants dans une famille, et plus elle devenait illustre.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Tutto  bene quando esce dalle mani dell'Autore delle cose, tutto degenera fra le mani dell'uomo.
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Happiness has no particular outward sign to discover itself by; we must be able to view the heart before we can be certain who are truly happy; but contentment is to be read in the eyes, the conversation, the accent, the manner, and seems to communicate itself to him that perceives it.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Si hay que permitir a ciertos hombres el librarse al estudio de las ciencias y de las artes, es a aquellos que tengan fuerzas para andar solos en su busca y para adelantarlas. A
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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His starting place is the paradox of the first Discourse: progress is a bad thing because it is morally corrupting. Human beings were better when their lives were simpler and less sophisticated. Underlying this argument- barely stated but already present- is a further paradox, the paradox of the second Discourse: inequality is the root of all evils. Progress requires inequality because it requires some people to have the time to concentrate on literature, philosophy, or science. Free time is one of the luxuries that only come into existence with inequality, and all intensifies the process.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, ... The State of War
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Unii m vor gsi caraghios, seme: puin mi pas! Trebuie s tiu a nfrunta rsul i ocara, cu condiia s nu le merit.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confesiuni II
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Un da tom el Mercurio de Francia, y andando y leyendo encontr este tema propuesto por la Academia de Dijon para el premio del siguiente ao: El progreso de las ciencias y de las artes ha contribuido a corromper o a purificar las costumbres? As
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Verdad es que tales resarcimientos no pueden ser sentidos por todas las almas ni en todas las situaciones. Es preciso que el corazn est en paz y que ninguna pasin venga a turbar su calma. Son precisas ciertas disposiciones por parte de quien los experimenta, son precisas en el concurso de los objetos circundantes. No se requiere ni un reposo absoluto ni demasiada agitacin, sino un movimiento uniforme y moderado, carente de sacudidas e intervalos. Sin movimiento la vida no es ms que un letargo. Si el movimiento es desigual o demasiado fuerte, despierta; al devolvernos a los objetos circundantes, destruye el encanto de la ensoacin y nos arranca de nuestros adentros para ponernos de inmediato bajo el yugo de la fortuna y de los hombres y entregarnos al sentimiento de nuestras desgracias.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. He forces one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another's fruit. He confuses and confounds time, places, and natural conditions. He mutilates his dog, his horses, and his slaves. He destroys and defaces all things; he loves all that is deformed and monstrous; he will have nothing as nature made it, not even man himself, who must learn his paces like a saddle-horse, and be shaped to his master's taste like the trees in his garden.
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Digan lo que quieran los moralistas, el entendimiento humano debe mucho a las pasiones, las cuales, segn el comn sentir, le deben mucho tambin. Por su actividad se perfecciona nuestra razn; no queremos saber sino porque deseamos gozar, y no puede concebirse por qu un hombre que careciera de deseos y temores habra de tomarse la molestia de pensar. A su vez, las pasiones se originan de nuestras necesidades, y su progreso, de nuestros conocimientos, pues no se puede desear o tener las cosas sino por las ideas que sobre ellas se tenga o por el nuevo impulso de la naturaleza. El
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me repeta este proverbio provinciano, algo menos exacto en Pars, que el que bien canta y bien danza trabaja mucho y no avanza.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Mis sentimientos se acomodaron con una rapidez inconcebible al tono de mis ideas. El entusiasmo por la verdad, la libertad y la virtud ahog todas mis pequeas pasiones; y lo mas sorprendente es que esta efervescencia subsisti en mi corazn durante ms de cuatro o cinco aos, llegando a tan alto grado como jams haya existido en otro corazn humano. Escrib
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Dup prerea mea, lipsa de ocupaie este pentru orice societate un flagel tot att de mare ca i acela al singurtii. Nimic nu ngusteaz mai mult spiritul, nimic nu favorizeaz mai mult fleacurile, rutile, nenelegerile, scielile, minciunile, dect faptul de a sta venic nchii ntr-o camer unii cu alii i de a nu avea alt treab dect s se plvrgeasc la nesfrit.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Lucrul ce s-a observat cel mai puin, i care va face totdeauna o scriere unic, este simpltiatea subiectului i desfurarea povestirii, care, concentrat ntre trei persoane, se susine de-a lungul a ase volume, fr ntmplri, fr aventuri ca n romane, fr ruti de nici un fel, nici n personaje, nici n fapte. Diderot i-a adus mari laude lui Samuel Richardson pentru mulimea personajelor sale. Richardson are, n adevr, meritul de a le fi descris pe toate bine; ct despre numrul lor, el este asemenea celor mai searbezi romancieri, care nlocuiesc srcia ideilor prin bogia personajelor i a ntmplrilor. E uor s trezeti atenia, prezentnd la nesfrit i fapte nemaipomenite i chipuri noi, care se perind ca imaginile din lanterna magic; dar a ine mereu treaz atenia asupra acelorai lucruri, i fr aventuri uluitoare, asta este, desigur, mai greu; i dac, lsnd la o parte altele, simplitatea subiectului contribuie la frumuseea operei, romanele lui Richardson, superioare n attea alte privine, nu vor putea fi, sub acest raport, puse n paralel cu al meu. El e mort, totui, o tiu, i tiu i din ce cauz; dar va nvia.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confesiuni III
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las fatigas y el agotamiento espiritual, los pesares y contrariedades que se sienten en todas las situaciones, los cuales corroen perpetuamente el alma: he ah las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra,
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Even if philosophers were in a position to discover truth, who among them would be interested in it? Each knows well that his system is not better founded than the others; but he supports it because it is his.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
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The money which a man possesses is the instrument of freedom; that which we eagerly pursue is the instrument of slavery. Therefore I hold fast to that which I have, and desire nothing.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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He aqu lo que oblig en todos los tiempos a los padres de la nacin a recurrir a la intervencin del cielo, (...) a fin de que los pueblos obedeciesen con libertad y llevasen dcilmente el yugo de la felicidad pblica.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Aprovechemos el contento de espritu cuando acude. Guardmonos de alejarlo por nuestra culpa, pero no hagamos proyectos para encadenarlo, pues que tales proyectos son puras locuras.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger, fire, the sword, and death to preserve only their independence, I feel it does not behoove slaves to reason about freedom.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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If Sparta and Rome perished, what state can hope to live forever? Hence, if we wish to form a lasting institution, let us not think about making it eternal. In order to succeed we should not attempt the impossible, or flatter ourselves that we are giving the work of men a solidity that does not belong to human things.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract
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La loi de la pluralit des suffrages est elle-mme un tablissement de convention, et suppose au moins une fois l'unanimit.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Le plus lent  promettre est toujours le plus fidle  tenir.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He who wills the end wills the means also,
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Todo hombre puede grabar tablas de piedra, o comprar un orculo, o fingir un comercio secreto con alguna divinidad, o amaestrar un pjaro para hablarle al odo, o encontrar medios groseros para imponer aqullas a un pueblo. El que no sepa ms que esto, podr hasta reunir un ejrcito de insensatos; pero nunca fundar un imperio, y su extravagante obra perecer enseguida con l. Vanos prestigios forman un vnculo pasajero; slo la sapiencia puede hacerlo duradero.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, The Social Contract
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Force is a physical power; I do not see how its effects could produce morality. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will; it is at best an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a moral duty?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Me detengo en estos primeros pasos y suplico a mis jueces suspendan en este punto la lectura para que consideren, solamente sobre la invencin de las substantivos fsicos, es decir, sobre la parte de la lengua ms fcil de hallar, el camino que an le queda para expresar todos los pensamientos de los hombres, para tomar una forma constante, para poder ser hablada pblicamente e influir sobre la sociedad; les suplico que reflexionen cunto tiempo y cuntos conocimientos han sido necesarios para descubrir los nmeros (21), los nombres abstractos, los aoristos (22) y todos los tiempos de los verbos, las partculas, la sintaxis; para unir los razonamientos y construir la lgica del discurso.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombre
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Liberado de todas las pasiones terrenas que engendra el tumulto de la vida social, mi alma se elevara frecuentemente por encima de esta atmsfera, y comerciara por anticipado con las inteligencias celestes cuyo nmero espera ir a aumentar dentro de poco.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Respetad a la infancia y no os deis prisa en juzgarla ni para el bien ni para el mal. Dejad
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilio o de la Educacion
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Gardez-vous, surtout et ce sera mon dernier conseil, d'couter jamais des interprtations sinistres et des discours envenims dont les motifs secrets sont souvent plus dangereux que les actions qui en sont l'objet. Toute une maison s'veille et se tient en alarmes aux premiers cris d'un bon et fidle gardien qui n'aboie jamais qu' l'approche des voleurs; mais on hait l'importunit de ces animaux bruyants qui troublent sans cesse le repos public, et dont les avertissements continuels et dplacs ne se font pas mme couter au moment qu'ils sont ncessaires.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Jaime mieux tre homme  paradoxes quhomme  prjudgs.
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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En vrit, je ne songeais gure  faire ni comme les autres ni autrement qu'eux. Je dsirais sincrement de faire ce qui tait bien.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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[...] eu tiam c n faa mpritorului adevratelor bunuri cel mai potrivit mijloc de a le cpta pe acelea de care aveam nevoie este mai puin de a le cere, ct de a le merita.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Me pregunt si haba copiado msica alguna vez. Respondle que a menudo, y era la verdad: el mejor modo como poda aprenderla era copindola.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Il amortit beaucoup mon admiration pour la grandeur, en me prouvant que ceux qui dominaient les autres n'taient ni plus sages ni plus heureux qu'eux.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Quin os ha dado las piedras? Y en virtud de qu pretendis cobrar a nuestras expensas un trabajo que nosotros no os hemos impuesto? Ignoris que multitud de hermanos vuestros perece o sufre por carecer de lo que a vosotros os sobra, y que necesitabais el consentimiento expreso y unnime del gnero humano para apropiaros de la comn subsistencia lo que excediese de la vuestra? Desprovisto
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombre
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Je me drobais de toute ma force  des situations qui me donnassent un intrt contraire  l'intrt d'un autre homme, et par consquent un dsir secret, quoique involontaire, du mal de cet homme-l.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Si algn progreso he hecho en el conocimiento del corazn humano, fue el placer que tena en ver y observar a los nios lo que me vali tal conocimiento.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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hice mayores progresos en otro arte ms til: el de contentarme con mi suerte y no desear otra ms brillante, para la que empezaba a sentir que no haba nacido.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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c'est que si chaque homme pouvait lire dans les curs de tous les autres, il y aurait plus de gens qui voudraient descendre que de ceux qui voudraient monter.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Objektif bakmdan, ezilenlerin teselli olarak bir Tanr'ya inanmalar, halk ynlarn mcadeleden uzaklatrmaktan baka bir sonu vermez.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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The world of reality has its limits,the world of imagination is boundless.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Considerations On The Government Of Poland
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il soit toujours prt  sacrifier le gouvernement au peuple et non le peuple au gouvernement.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Si hubiese sabido desprenderme del yugo de la amistad, como del de la opinin, hubiera logrado completamente mi objeto, quiz el ms grande, o a lo menos el ms til para la virtud, que jams mortal alguno haya concebido;
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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A prendre le terme dans la rigueur de l'acception, il n'a jamais exist de vritable dmocratie, et il n'en existera jamais. Il est contre l'ordre naturel que le grand nombre gouverne et que le petit soit gouvern. On ne peut imaginer que le peuple reste incessamment assembl pour vaquer aux affaires publiques, et l'on voit aisment qu'il ne saurait tablir pour cela des commissions sans que la forme de l'administration change.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Esta idea me caus horror, tom la firme resolucin de combatirme y vencerme a m mismo, si desgraciadamente se apoderaba de m esta inclinacin.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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le luxe est l'effet des richesses, ou il les rend ncessaires; il corrompt  la fois le riche et le pauvre, l'un par la possession, l'autre par la convoitise; il vend la patrie  la mollesse,  la vanit; il te  l'Etat tous ses citoyens pour les asservir les uns aux autres, et tous  lopinion.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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pour rgner; c'est une science qu'on ne possde jamais moins qu'aprs l'avoir trop apprise, et qu'on acquiert mieux en obissant qu'en commandant.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Jeune, vigoureux, plein de sant, de scurit, de confiance en moi et aux autres, j'tais dans ce court, mais prcieux moment de la vie, o sa plnitude expansive tend pour ainsi dire notre tre par toutes nos sensations, et embellit  nos yeux la nature entire du charme de notre existence.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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But when the Jews, while in subjection to the kings of Babylon and later the kings of Syria, wanted to remain steadfast in not giving recognition to any other god but their own (think about Hamans arguments in the Book of Esther), their refusal, seen as rebellion against the victor, brought them the persecutions we read in their history, and of which there is no other precedent prior to Christianity.
Since this new idea of an otherworldly kingdom (-that Jesus speaks about) had never entered to head of the pagans, they always regarded Christianity as true rebels who, underneath their hypothetical submission, were only waiting for the moment when they would become independent and the masters, and adroitly they pretended in their weakness to respect. This is the reason for the persecution.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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On sent, je crois, qu'avoir de la religion, pour un enfant, et mme pour un homme, c'est suivre celle o il est n. Quelquefois on en te; rarement on y ajoute; la foi dogmatique est un fruit de l'ducation.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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y yo me adapto tan fcilmente a un mtodo de vida, cuando es voluntario, que slo hubiera deseado que ste durase siempre.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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El gusto del placer exista todava, mas la pasin haba desaparecido.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Este favor del pblico, de ningn modo buscado, y para un autor desconocido, me inspir la primera confianza verdadera en mi capacidad, de que haba dudado hasta entonces, a pesar del sentimiento interno.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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The great secret of education is to use exercise of mind and body as relaxation one to the other.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Non, il n'y a point de jouissances pareilles  celles que peut donner une honnte femme qu'on aime; tout est faveur auprs d'elle.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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mas tambin con la satisfaccin interior, que experimentaba por vez primera, de poder decirme: Merezco mi propia estimacin; s preferir mi deber a mi placer.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Perch l'impulso del solo appetito  schiavit, e l'obbedienza alla legge che noi stessi ci siamo dati  libert.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Cuando cada cual tiene su quehacer, nadie habla sino cuando tiene algo que decir; pero cuando no se hace nada, es forzoso estar hablando siempre; y he ah la ms incmoda y peligrosa de todas las sujeciones.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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No deis a vuestros alumnos lecciones verbales de ninguna clase, puesto que slo deben recibirlas de la experiencia; tampoco
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilio o de la Educacion
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
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Es singular que nunca se remonte ms agradablemente mi imaginacin como cuando me hallo en un estado menos agradable; y, al contrario, cuando todo re en derredor mo, entonces es menos risuea mi fantasa. Mi mala cabeza no puede sujetarse a la realidad. No puede embellecer, necesita crear.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Je trouvais que voler et tre battu allaient ensemble, et constituaient en quelque sorte un tat,
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
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Je ne dispute donc pas que la mdecine ne soit utile  quelques hommes, mais je dis quelle est funeste au genre humain.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, mile, ou De l'ducation
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dulce y tranquila, en cuanto de m dependiese. Hallndome solo jams he conocido el fastidio, aun no teniendo absolutamente nada que hacer: mi imaginacin, llenando todo vaco, es bastante por s sola para ocuparme.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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La espada gasta la vaina, dice el proverbio. He aqu mi historia. He vivido de mis pasiones y mis pasiones me han matado.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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In the natural order men are all equal and their common calling is that of manhood, so that a well-educated man cannot fail to do well in that calling and those related to it. It matters little to me whether my pupil is intended for the army, the church, or the law. Before his parents chose a calling for him nature called him to be a man. Life is the trade I would teach him. When he leaves me, I grant you, he will be neither a magistrate, a soldier, nor a priest; he will be a man. All that becomes a man he will learn as quickly as another. In vain will fate change his station, he will always be in his right place. "Occupavi te, fortuna, atque cepi; omnes-que aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me aspirare non posses.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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J'aime  manger, sans tre avide: je suis sensuel, et non pas gourmand.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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La lectura de las desgracias imaginarias de Cleveland, ardorosamente hecha y frecuentemente interrumpida, creo que me hizo ms dao que las propias. Haba
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Jamais passions ne furent en mme temps plus vives et plus pures que les miennes, jamais amour ne fut plus tendre, plus vrai, plus dsintress.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Je crois bien que cette horreur du vol de l'argent et de ce qui en produit me venait en grande partie de l'ducation. Il se mlait  cela des ides secrtes d'infamie, de prison, de chtiment, de potence qui m'auraient fait frmir si j'avais t tent;
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Could integrity be the daughter of ignorance? Could knowledge and virtue be incompatible? What consequences could we not draw from these opinions? But to reconcile these apparent contradictions, it is necessary only to examine closely the vanity and the emptiness of those proud titles which dazzle us and which we hand out so gratuitously to human learning.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts and Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men
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nsann zgrl; istei her eyi yapabilmesinde deil, istemedii hibir eyi yapmak zorunda olmamasndadr.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Linguirea, sau mai bine zis ngduina, nu e totdeauna un pcat, ea e de cele mai multe ori o virtute, ndeosebi la tineri. Buntatea cu care un om ne trateaz ne leag de el; nu-i cedezi ca s profii de el, ci ca s nu-l mhneti, ca s nu-i plteti binele cu ru.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Mi talento consista en saber decir a los hombres verdades tiles, pero duras, con bastante valor y energa;
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Yo, por un cmulo de males de todo gnero, haba de servir de ejemplo a todo aquel que, inspirado por el solo amor del bien pblico y de la justicia, se atreva, escudado nicamente en su inocencia, a decir a los hombres la verdad abiertamente, sin apoyarse en las intrigas y
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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For in appearing to use only its rights, the Prince can very easily expand them and, on the pretext of public calm, prevent assemblies intended to restore good order; so that it takes advantage either of a silence that it prevents from being broken, or of the irregularities that it causes to be committed, and to punish those who dare speak.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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La loi judaque toujours subsistante, celle de l'enfant d'Ismal qui depuis dix sicles rgit la moiti du monde, annoncent encore aujourd'hui les grands hommes qui les ont dictes; et tandis que l'orgueilleuse philosophie ou l'aveugle esprit de parti ne voit en eux que d'heureux imposteurs, le vrai politique admire dans leurs institutions ce grand et puissant gnie qui prside aux tablissements durables.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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on peut acqurir la libert; mais on ne la recouvre jamais
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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jamais Etat ne fut fond que la religion ne lui servt de base
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts, when the barest interest brazenly assumes the sacred name of public good; then the general will grows mute, everyone, prompted by secret motives, no more states opinions as a Citizen than if the State had never existed, and iniquitous decrees with no other goal than particular interest are falsely passed under the name of Laws.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings
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la frquence des supplices est toujours un signe de faiblesse ou de paresse dans le gouvernement. Il n'y a point de mchant qu'on ne pt rendre bon  quelque chose.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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L'argent qu'on possde est l'instrument de la libert; celui qu'on pourchasse est celui de la servitude.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Puede decirse muy bien que no empec a vivir hasta que me tuve por muerto.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Je suis moins tent de l'argent que des choses, parce qu'entre l'argent et la possession dsire il y a toujours un intermdiaire; au lieu qu'entre la chose mme et sa jouissance il n'y en a point.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Am socotit totdeauna ziua care m-a unit cu Thrse ca fiind aceea care mi-a statornicit fiina moral. Blndul caracter al acestei fete bune mi se pru att de potrivit cu al meu, c m-am unit cu ea printr-o legtur ce nvingea timpul i necazurile, i pe care tot ceea ce ar fi trebuit s o rup nu fcu dect s o ntreasc. Se va cunoate puterea acestei legturi n cele ce urmeaz, cnd se va afl c, dup ce am fcut totul, dup ce am nfruntat totul spre a nu ne despri, c dup douzeci i cinci de ani trii cu ea, n pofida soartei i a oamenilor, am sfrit la btrnee prin a o lua n cstorie, fr ca ea s se atepte i fr s cear aceasta, fr vreun legmnt sau fgduial din partea mea; se va crede c o dragoste turbat, lundu-mi din prima zi minile, n-a fcut dect s m duc din treapt n treapt pn la ultima nebunie, i se va crede asta cu att mai mult cnd se vor cunoate motivele personale i temeinice care m-ar fi putut mpiedica de la pasul acesta. Ce va gndi oare cititorul, cnd i voi spune, cu tot adevrul, c din prima clip cnd am vzut-o i pn n prezent, n-am simit nici cea mai mic scnteie de dragoste pentru ea, c n-am dorit niciodat s-o posed mai mult ca pe doamna de Warens i c nevoile simurilor, pe care mi le-am satisfcut cu ea, au fost pentru mine doar acelea ale sexului, fr a-mi rscoli cu nimic fiina? Va crede c, fiind alctuit altfel dect ceilali oameni, n-am fost n stare s simt dragostea, deoarece ea nu intr n simmintele ce m legau de femeile care mi-au fost cele mai scumpe. Dar, o, cititorule, rbdare! Cci se apropie momentul fatal cnd nu vei fi dect foarte dezamgit. Cea dinti dintre nevoile mele, cea mai mare, cea mai puternic, cea mai arztoare era sdit n inima mea: era nevoia unei tovarii intime, i att de intime pe ct putea fi cu putin; iar pentru aceasta mi trebuia mai degrab o femeie dect un brbat, mai degrab o prieten dect un prieten. Aceast nevoie deosebit era de aa natur, c cea mai strns unire a trupurilor nu-i putea fi de ajuns; mi-ar fi trebuit dou suflete ntr-un singur trup; altfel, simeam totdeauna un gol. M crezui pe cale s nu-l mai simt. Aceast tnr fat, drgla prin mii de minunate nsuiri, iar atunci chiar prin chipul ei, fr nici o umbr de fal sau prefctorie, mi-ar fi mrginit n ea nsi ntreaga existen, dac eu a fi putut s o mrginesc pe a ei ntr-a mea, aa cum trsesem ndejde. Nu aveam nici o temere n privina celorlali brbai; sunt ncredinat c am fost singurul pe care ea l-a iubit cu adevrat, i simurile ei potolite n-au mpins-o niciodat spre alii, chiar atunci cnd eu am ncetat de a mai fi pentru ea un brbat n sensul acesta.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confesiuni II
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nada enlaza tanto los corazones como llorar juntos.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Pero la indolencia, el descuido y las dilaciones en los pequeos deberes que tena que llenar, me han hecho ms dao que los grandes vicios.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Jams he podido tolerar ese cmulo insignificante y tonto de las conversaciones ordinarias; mas las tiles y slidas siempre me han causado un gran placer y nunca las he rehusado.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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La errnea idea que tena de las cosas me induca a creer que, para leer un libro con provecho, era necesario poseer todos los conocimientos que el mismo supona, bien lejos de sospechar que con frecuencia careca de ellos el mismo autor, quien iba a buscarlos en otros libros a medida que los necesitaba.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Maintenant qu'il n'y a plus et qu'il ne peut plus y avoir de Religion nationale exclusive, on doit tolrer toutes celles qui tolerent les autres, autant que leurs dogmes n'ont rien de contraire aux devoirs du Citoyen. Mais quiconque ose dire, hors de l'Eglise point de Salut, doit tre chass de l'Etat;  moins que l'Etat ne soit l'Eglise, et que le Prince ne soit le Pontife. Un tel dogme n'est bon que dans un Gouvernement Thocratique.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social: livres III et IV
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On obtient trs srement et trs vite ce qu'on n'est pas press d'obtenir.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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los nicos males que teme son el dolor y el hambre. Digo el dolor y no la muerte, pues el animal nunca sabr qu cosa es morir; el conocimiento de la muerte y de sus terrores es una de las primeras adquisiciones hechas por el hombre al apartarse de su condicin animal.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Cuando me he fijado en algunas pginas de un autor que debe ser ledo con atencin, mi espritu le abandona y se cierne en los espacios.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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La libert n'tant pas un fruit de tous les climats n'est pas  la porte de tous les peuples.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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C'est comme s'ils leur disaient : Sachez que l'homme n'est rien que par ses habits, que votre prix est tout dans les vtres. Faut-il s'tonner que de si sages leons profitent  la jeunesse, qu'elle n'estime que la parure, et qu'elle ne juge du mrite que sur le seul extrieur ?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Cuando por casualidad encuentro alguno que ha escapado a las instrucciones comunes, o que al no conocer mi cara no me muestra ninguna aversin, el honesto saludo de ese solo me restituye de la actitud arisca de los dems. Los olvido para no ocuparme sino de l, y me imagino que tiene una de esas almas como la ma, donde el odio no podra penetrar.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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y del placer de los bellos conocimientos que me propona adquirir; pues para mi era como si ya los poseyese, o mejor dicho, era ms todava, porque el gusto de aprender entraba por mucho en mi felicidad. Es
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Wees minnaar van een ziel.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, or the New Heloise
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D'o vient la faiblesse de l'homme ? De l'ingalit qui se trouve entre sa force et ses dsirs. Ce sont nos passions qui nous rendent faibles, parce qu'il faudrait pour les contenter plus de forces que ne nous en donna la nature. Diminuez donc les dsirs, c'est comme si vous augmentiez les forces : celui qui peut plus qu'il ne dsire en a de reste ; il est certainement un tre trs fort.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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lo misterioso me inquieta siempre, es harto contrario a mi carcter, abierto hasta la imprudencia.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Rien ne rtrcit plus lesprit, rien nengendre plus de riens, de rapports, de paquets, de tracasseries, de mensonges, que dtre ternellement renferms vis--vis les uns des autres dans une chambre, rduits pour tout ouvrage  la ncessit de babiller continuellement.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions
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Hay ms: el verdadero placer no se describe; slo se siente, y tanto ms cuanto menos puede describirse, porque no resulta de un conjunto de hechos sino de un estado permanente.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Al leer cada autor, me impuse la obligacin de seguir el curso de sus ideas sin mezclar en ello las mas ni las de otro alguno y sin discutir con l.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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no puede liberarse cuando el resorte civil se ha gastado.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Es la humanidad pura la que me da cobijo.
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Ses progrs dans la gomtrie vous pourraient servir d'preuve et de mesure certaine pour le dveloppement de son intelligence : mais sitt qu'il peut discerner ce qui est utile et ce qui ne l'est pas, il importe d'user de beaucoup de mnagement et d'art pour l'amener aux tudes spculatives.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Estas cadenas no me parecieron, sin embargo, muy pesadas, en tanto en cuanto, ignorado por el pblico, viv en la oscuridad.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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La vertu ne nous cote que par notre faute, et si nous voulions tre toujours sages, rarement aurions-nous besoin d'tre vertueux.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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No saba emplear con ellos ms que tres medios intiles siempre y frecuentemente perniciosos con los nios: el sentimiento, los razonamientos y el enojo.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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resolv no ligarme a nadie sino conservar mi independencia sacando partido de mis conocimientos, cuyo valor comenzaba a conocer al fin y que hasta entonces haba juzgado con harta modestia.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Voici le temps aussi de l'accoutumer peu  peu  donner une attention suivie au mme objet : mais ce n'est jamais la contrainte, c'est toujours le plaisir ou le dsir qui doit produire cette attention ; il faut avoir grand soin qu'elle ne l'accable point et n'aille pas jusqu' l'ennui. Tenez donc toujours l'oeil au guet ; et, quoi qu'il arrive, quittez tout avant qu'il s'ennuie ; car il n'importe jamais autant qu'il apprenne, qu'il importe qu'il ne fasse rien malgr lui.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Figurbanse que yo poda escribir por oficio, como los dems literatos, cuando jams he sabido escribir sino movido por la pasin,
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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No se deben dar preceptos, sino hacer de manera que los encuentre el alumno.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilio o de la Educacion
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Les arts les plus utiles sont ceux qui gagnent le moins, parce que le nombre des ouvriers se proportionne au besoin des hommes, et que le travail ncessaire  tout le monde reste forcment  un prix que le pauvre peut payer. Au contraire, ces importants qu'on n'appelle pas artisans, mais artistes, travaillant uniquement pour les oisifs et les riches, mettent un prix arbitraire  leurs babioles ; et, comme le mrite de ces vains travaux n'est que dans l'opinion, leur prix mme fait partie de ce mrite, et on les estime  proportion de ce qu'ils cotent.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nulle socit ne peut exister sans change, nul change sans mesure commune, et nulle mesure commune sans galit.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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El juego no es ms que un recurso de las personas que se fastidian.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder. I ask: has anyone ever heard of a savage man who was living in liberty ever dreaming of complaining about his life and of killing himself?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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veo un animal menos fuerte que unos, menos gil que otros, pero, en conjunto, el ms ventajosamente organizado de todos;
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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In instinct alone, man had everything he needed in order to live in the state of nature; in a cultivated reason, he has only what he needs to live in society.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Ils tudiaient la nature humaine pour en pouvoir parler savamment, mais non pour se connatre; ils travaillaient pour instruire les autres, mais non pour s'clairer en dedans.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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The truth brings no man a fortune
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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La tyrannie de mon matre finit par me rendre insupportable le travail que j'aurais aim, et par me donner des vices que j'aurais has,
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Supposons dix hommes, dont chacun a dix sortes de besoins. Il faut que chacun, pour son ncessaire, s'applique  dix sortes de travaux ; mais, vu la diffrence de gnie et de talent, l'un russira moins  quelqu'un de ces travaux, l'autre  un autre. Tous, propres  diverses choses, feront les mmes, et seront mal servis. Formons une socit de ces dix hommes, et que chacun s'applique, pour lui seul et pour les neuf autres, au genre d'occupation qui lui convient le mieux ; chacun profitera des talents des autres comme si lui seul les avait tous ; chacun perfectionnera le sien par un continuel exercice ; et il arrivera que tous les dix, parfaitement bien pourvus, auront encore du surabondant pour d'autres. Voil le principe apparent de toutes nos institutions.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Oh t, hombre, de cualquier pas que seas, cualesquiera que sean tus opiniones, escucha! He aqu tu historia tal como he credo leerla, no en los libros de tus semejantes, que son mendaces, sino en la naturaleza, que jams miente.

Todo lo que provenga de ella ser verdadero, slo ser falso lo que yo haya puesto de mi parte inadvertidamente. Los tiempos de que voy a hablar estn muy lejos ya. Cunto has cambiado! Por as decir, es la vida de tu especie la que voy a describirte, segn las cualidades que has recibido, que tu educacin y tus costumbres han podido viciar pero no han podido destruir. Hoy, yo lo comprendo, a una edad en la cual quisiera detenerse el hombre individual; t buscars la edad en que desearas se hubiese detenido tu especie.

Disgustado de tu estado presente por razones que anuncian a tu posteridad desdichada desazones mayores todava, tal vez desearas poder retroceder, este sentimiento debe servir de elogio a tus primeros antepasados, de crtica a tus contemporneos, de espanto para aquellos que tengan la desgracia de vivir despus que t.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discurso Sobre La Desigualdad Entre Los Hombres
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Con tan contadas causas de males, el hombre, en el estado natural, apenas tiene necesidad de remedio y menos de medicina.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Il a un esprit universel, non par les lumires, mais par la facult d'en acqurir ; un esprit ouvert, intelligent, prt  tout, et, comme dit Montaigne, sinon instruit, du moins instruisable.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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La Religion est utile et meme necessaire aux Peuples. Cela nest-il pas dit, soutenu, prouve dans ce meme Ecrit? Loin dattaquer les vrais principes de la Religion, lAuteur les pose, les affermit de tout son pouvoir; ce quil attaque, ce quil combat, ce quil doit combattre, cest le fanatisme aveugle, la superstition cruelle, le stupide prejuge. Mais il faut, disent-ils, respecter tout cela. Mais pourquoi? Parce que cest ainsi quon mene les Peuples. Oui, cest ainsi quon les mene a leur perte. La superstition est le plus terrible fleau du genre humain; elle abbrutit les simples, elle persecute les sages, elle enchaine les Nations, elle fait par tout cent maux effroyables: quel bien fait-elle? Aucun; si elle en fait, cest aux Tyrans; elle est leur arme la plus terrible, et cela meme est le plus grand mal quelle ait jamais fait. il importe que lEtat ne soit pas sans Religion, et cela importe par des raisons graves, sur lesquelles jai par tout fortement insiste: mais il vaudroit mieux encore nen point avoir, que den avoir une barbare et persecutante qui, tyrannisant les Loix memes, contrarieroit les devoirs du Citoyen
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social: livres III et IV
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No hay da que no recuerde con gozo y ternura aquel nico y breve tiempo de mi vida en que fui plenamente yo, sin mezcla y sin traba, y en que puedo realmente decir que he vivido.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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nous cdons  des tentations lgres dont nous mprisons le danger. Insensiblement nous tombons dans des situations prilleuses, dont nous pouvions aisment nous garantir, mais dont nous ne pouvons plus nous tirer sans des efforts hroques qui nous effrayent, et nous tombons enfin dans l'abme en disant  Dieu: Pourquoi m'as-tu fait si faible? Mais malgr nous il rpond  nos consciences: Je t'ai fait trop faible pour sortir du gouffre, parce que je t'ai fait assez fort pour n'y pas tomber.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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pero no ha dejado de quererme sino al dejar de existir; nuestra amistad slo ha terminado con su vida.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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ichthyophagous.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Les hommes ne sont naturellement ni rois, ni grands, ni courtisans, ni riches ; tous sont ns nus et pauvres, tous sujets aux misres de la vie, aux chagrins, aux maux, aux besoins, aux douleurs de toute espce ; enfin, tous sont condamns  la mort. Voil ce qui est vraiment de l'homme ; voil de quoi nul mortel n'est exempt. Commencez donc par tudier de la nature humaine ce qui en est le plus insparable, ce qui constitue le mieux l'humanit.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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mas a la sazn contaba treinta aos y me hallaba en Pars, donde no puede vivirse sin contar con algo.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Nous voyons, mme de nos jours, que les gouvernements qui se conduisent le mieux sont ceux dont on parle le moins. Nous ne savons donc que le mal ;  peine le bien fait-il poque. Il n'y a que les mchants de clbres, les bons sont oublis ou tourns en ridicule : et voil comment l'histoire, ainsi que la philosophie, calomnie sans cesse le genre humain.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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He visto que para obrar el bien con placer era preciso que actuase libremente, sin coaccin, y que para privarme de toda la dulzura de una buena obra bastaba con que se convirtiera en un deber para m.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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nunca har mal alguno a otro hombre, ni aun a cualquier ser sensible, salvo el legtimo caso en que, hallndose comprometida su propia conservacin, se vea forzado a darse a s mismo la preferencia.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Qu deliciosas comidillas haca all solo, leyendo algunas pginas de novela! Porque leer comiendo fue siempre mi mayor capricho, a falta de mejor compaa: es el suplemento de la sociedad que me falta. Alternativamente devoro una pgina y un bocado; es como si mi libro comiese conmigo.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Rapproche ces contrastes, aime la nature, mprise l'opinion, et connais l'homme.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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mi trabajo desigual y sin arte tan pronto era sublime como trivial, como debe serio el de cualquiera que slo posee arranques de genio y no se halla sostenido por la ciencia.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"
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When all was right around me, when I was content with everything, and satisfied with the sphere I was to occupy, I filled it with my affections, while my expansive soul, extending itself to other objects, was perpetually attracted by a thousand different inclinations, and by amiable attachments, which continually employed my heart: in these situations I forgot myself in some measure, thinking principally on what was foreign to me, and experiencing in the continual agitation of my feelings, all the vicissitude of earthly things. This exquisite sensibility lest me neither inward peace, nor outward repose; happy in appearance only, I had not a single sentiment that could have borne the proof of reflection, or with which I could truly have been content. Never was I perfectly satisfied either with others or myself; the tumult of the world made me giddy, solitude wearied me, I perpetually wished for a change of situation, and met with happiness in none.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Totul e, aici, ntr-o continu prefacere care nu ngduie nici unui lucru s ia o nfiare statornic. Totul se schimb n jurul nostru. Noi nine ne schimbm i nimeni nu poate fi sigur c va iubi mine ceea ce iubete astzi. Aa c toate planurile noastre de fericire n via sunt himerice. S ne bucurm mai bine de mulumirea sufleteasc, cnd ne e dat; s ne ferim s-o punem pe fug din propria noastr greeal; dar s-o nlnuim ca s nu ne scape, degeaba ne-am osteni, cci asemenea osteneal ar fi curat neghiobie. Oameni fericii am vzut puini, poate deloc; dar am vzut adesea suflete mulumite i, din tot ce m-a uimit pe lume, acesta e lucrul care mi-a dat i mie la rndul meu cea mai mare mulumire.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Mientras el gobierno y las leyes subvienen a la seguridad y al bienestar de los hombres sociales, las letras y las artes, menos dspotas y quiz ms poderosas, extienden guirnaldas de flores sobre las cadenas de hierro que los agobian, ahogan en ellos el sentimiento de la libertad original para la cual parecan haber nacido, los hacen amar su esclavitud y los transforman en lo que se ha dado en llamar pueblos civilizados. La necesidad
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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He who wills the end, wills the means also, and the means must involve some risks, and even some losses.
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Por qu slo el hombre es susceptible de convertirse en imbcil? No es porque vuelve as a su estado primitivo y porque, en tanto la bestia, que nada ha adquirido y que nada tiene que perder, permanece siempre con su instinto, el hombre, perdiendo por la vejez o por otros accidentes todo lo que su perfectibilidad lo ha proporcionado, cae ms bajo que el animal mismo?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Nadie se atreve ya a parecer lo que es; y en esta coaccin perpetua, los hombres que conforman el rebao llamado sociedad, situados en las mismas circunstancias, harn todos lo mismo si no se lo impiden motivos de fuerza mayor. Por lo tanto, nunca sabremos muy bien con quin nos enfrentamos; para conocer a un amigo ser necesario esperar las grandes ocasiones, es decir, esperar el momento en que ya sea tarde, puesto que para esas mismas ocasiones habra sido esencial conocerlo.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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He ah las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra, casi todos los cuales hubiramos evitado conservando la manera de vivir simple, uniforme y solitaria que nos fue prescrita por la Naturaleza. Si ella nos ha destinado a ser sanos, me atrevo casi a asegurar que el estado de reflexin es un estado contra la naturaleza, y que el hombre que medita es un animal degenerado".
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discurso Sobre La Desigualdad Entre Los Hombres
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L'indpendance que je croyais avoir acquise tait le seul sentiment qui m'affectait. Libre et matre de moi-mme, je croyais pouvoir tout faire, atteindre  tout: je n'avais qu' m'lancer pour m'lever et voler dans les airs.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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sociedad en que el deber de una eterna fidelidad slo sirve para originar adulterios y donde las mismas leyes del honor y la continencia extienden necesariamente la corrupcin y multiplican los abortos.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Dieu est bon ; rien n'est plus manifeste : mais la bont dans l'homme est l'amour de ses semblables, et la bont de Dieu est l'amour de l'ordre ; car c'est par l'ordre qu'il maintient ce qui existe, et lie chaque partie avec le tout. Dieu est juste ; j'en suis convaincu, c'est une suite de sa bont ; l'injustice des hommes est leur oeuvre et non pas la sienne ; le dsordre moral, qui dpose contre la Providence aux yeux des philosophes, ne fait que la dmontrer aux miens.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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El gusto por la soledad y la contemplacin naci en mi corazn con los sentimientos expansivos y tiernos hechos para ser su alimento. El tumulto y el ruido los oprimen y los ahogan, la calma y la paz los reaniman y los exaltan. Tengo necesidad de recogerme para amar.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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He examinado -dice- a los poetas y los miro como personas cuyo talento impone a las dems y a ellas mismas, que se las dan de sabias, a las que se tiene por tales, cuando tienen menos de eso que de ninguna otra cosa. De los poetas -contina Scrates- he
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes
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Qu'un homme vienne nous tenir ce langage : Mortels, je vous annonce la volont du Trs-Haut ; reconnaissez  ma voix celui qui m'envoie ; j'ordonne au soleil de changer sa course, aux toiles de former un autre arrangement, aux montagnes de s'aplanir, aux flots de s'lever,  la terre de prendre un autre aspect.  ces merveilles, qui ne reconnatra pas  l'instant le matre de la nature ! Elle n'obit point aux imposteurs ; leurs miracles se font dans des carrefours, dans des dserts, dans des chambres ; et c'est l qu'ils ont bon march d'un petit nombre de spectateurs dj disposs  tout croire. Qui est-ce qui m'osera dire combien il faut de tmoins oculaires pour rendre un prodige digne de foi ? Si vos miracles, faits pour prouver votre doctrine, ont eux-mmes besoin d'tre prouvs, de quoi servent-ils ? autant valait n'en point faire.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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El que tales distinciones se hallen o no en los libros, no quita que se hagan en el corazn de todo hombre de buena fe consigo mismo, que no quiere permitir nada que su conciencia pueda reprocharle.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Votre Dieu n'est pas le ntre, dirais-je  ses sectateurs. Celui qui commence par se choisir un seul peuple et proscrire le reste du genre humain, n'est pas le pre commun des hommes ; celui qui destine au supplice ternel le plus grand nombre de ses cratures n'est pas le Dieu clment et bon que ma raison m'a montr.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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G maddesel bir eydir. Bundan nasl bir ahlak kabilir, bilmem. Gce boyun emek, bir istem ii deil, bir zorunluluk; olsa olsa bir saknt iidir. Ne bakmdan dev olabilir bu?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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Ce principe tabli, il s'ensuit que la femme est faite spcialement pour plaire  l'homme. Si l'homme doit lui plaire  son tour, c'est d'une ncessit moins directe : son mrite est dans sa puissance ; il plat par cela seul qu'il est fort. Ce n'est pas ici la loi de l'amour, j'en conviens ; mais c'est celle de la nature, antrieure  l'amour mme.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Nada hay que influya ms sobre mi corazn que un acto de valor hecho a propsito, en favor del dbil injustamente oprimido. En
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Vous empche-t-on de les instruire et faire instruire  votre gr ? Est-ce notre faute si elles nous plaisent quand elles sont belles, si leurs minauderies nous sduisent, si l'art qu'elles apprennent de vous nous attire et nous flatte, si nous aimons  les voir mises avec got, si nous leur laissons affiler  loisir les armes dont elles nous subjuguent ? Eh ! prenez le parti de les lever comme des hommes ; ils y consentiront de bon coeur. Plus elles voudront leur ressembler, moins elles les gouverneront, et c'est alors qu'ils seront vraiment les matres.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Enemigo de cuanto lleva el nombre de partido, faccin o cbala, jams he esperado nada bueno de las personas que a ellos pertenecen.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Egemen varlk isteyince, her yurtta devlete yapabilecei hizmetleri hemen yapmak zorundadr. Ama egemen varlk da yurttalar toplulua yararl olmayan hibir ie zorlayamaz, hatta byle bir eyi isteyemez de. nk doa yasas gibi, akl yasas altnda da hibir ey nedensiz meydana gelmez.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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Her insann, kendisine gerekli olan her ey stnde doal olarak hakk vardr. Ama insan bir eyin sahibi yapan ilem, onu geriye kalan her eyin sahiplii dnda brakr; payn ald iin, onun snrlar iinde kalmak zorundadr; topluluktan isteyecei bir hakk kalmaz. Onun iin, ilk oturma hakk, doal durumda ne kadar dayanksz olursa olsun, her uygar insann sayg gsterdii bir haktr. Bu hakta sayg gren, bakasnn olan ey deil, bizim olmayan eydir.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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Ne dtruisons point les instruments du bonheur parce que les mchants s'en servent quelquefois  nuire.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Si hubiera tenido hacha, habra roto con el puo tan fuertes ramas? Si hubiese tenido honda, lanzara a brazo con tanta fuerza las piedras? Si hubiera tenido escalera, trepara con tanta ligereza por los rboles? Si hubiese tenido caballos sera tan rpido en la carrera? Dad al hombre civilizado el tiempo preciso para reunir todas esas mquinas a su derredor: no cabe duda que superar fcilmente al hombre salvaje. Mas si queris ver un combate an ms desigual, ponedlos desnudos y desarmados frente a frente, y bien pronto reconoceris cules son las ventajas de tener continuamente a su disposicin todas sus fuerzas, de estar siempre preparado para cualquier contingencia y de conducirse siempre consigo, por as decir, todo entero
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Genel olarak, bir toprak paras zerinde ilk oturma hakk tanmak iin aadaki koullarn bulunmas gerekir: nce, bu toprakta o zamana kadar kimsenin oturmam olmas, sonra bir kimsenin yalnz geimine yetecek kadar yer tutmu olmas; son olarak da bu topran bo bir trenle deil, (yasal kant bulunmad zaman bakasnn saymak zorunda olduu tek sahiplik belirtisi olan) alma ve ekip bimeyle elde tutulmu olmas gerekir.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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Les gens qui passent exactement la vie entire  travailler pour vivre n'ont d'autre ide que celle de leur travail ou de leur intrt, et tout leur esprit semble tre au bout de leurs bras.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Il n'y avait points de motif hypocrite  cette conduite: je ne songeais point  changer de religion; et, bien loin de me familiariser si vite avec cette ide, je ne l'envisageais qu'avec une horreur qui devait l'carter de moi pour longtemps: je voulais seulement ne point fcher ceux qui me caressaient dans cette vue; je voulais cultiver leur bienveillance,
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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nk hakk douran g ise, etkiyle birlikte etken de deiir. Bir ncekini alt eden bir g, onun hakkn da elde eder. Ceza grmeden ba kaldrabildiniz mi, bu bakaldrma bir hak olabilir. Madem gl her zaman hakldr, yleyse yaplacak ey, her zaman gl olmaya bakmaktr. Glnn yok olmasyla ortadan kalkan bir hakka hak diyebilir miyiz? nsan boyun eecek olduktan sonra, dev dolaysyla niye boyun esin? nsan boyun emeye zorlanyorsa, boyun emek zorunda deil demektir. Grlyor ki, hak sz ge hibir ey eklemiyor; bu bakmdan hibir anlam da tamyor.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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A putea s spun c n-am nceput s simt c triesc dect atunci cnd m privii ca un om mort.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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A veces he pensado con bastante profundidad; pera raramente con placer, casi siempre mal de mi grado y como por fuerza: la ensoacin me descansa y me divierte, la reflexin me fatiga y me entristece; pensar fue siempre para m una ocupacin penosa y sin encanto. A veces mis ensoaciones acaban en la meditacin, pero ms a menudo mis meditaciones acaban en la ensoacin, y durante estos extravos mi alma erra y planea por el universo en las alas de la imaginacin en xtasis que superan a cualquier otro goce.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Trouver une forme d'association qui dfende et protge de toute la force commune la personne et les biens de chaque associ, et par laquelle chacun s'unissant  tous n'obisse pourtant qu' lui-mme et reste aussi libre qu'auparavant." Tel est le problme fondamental dont le contrat social donne la solution.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Bylece, devleri ve karlar szlemeyi yapan taraflar karlkl olarak yardmlamaya zorlar ve ayn insanlarn bu iki ilikiye bal btn karlarn
bu ilikiye gre birletirmeye almalar gerekir.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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Si donc on carte du pacte social ce qui n'est pas de son essence, on trouvera qu'il se rduit aux termes suivants: Chacun de nous met en commun sa personne et toute sa puissance sous la suprme direction de la volont gnrale; et nous recevons en corps chaque membre comme partie indivisible du tout.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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si l'opposition des intrts particuliers a rendu ncessaire l'tablissement des socits, c'est l'accord de ces mmes intrts qui l'a rendu possible.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Dman ldrme hakk tutsak edilemedii zaman vardr ancak. Demek, dman tutsak etme hakk, ldrme hakkndan gelmiyor. yleyse zerinde kimsenin hibir hakk bulunmayan yaamn zgrl pahasna yenilen tarafa satn aldrtmak ok haksz bir dei tokutur. Olum kalm hakkn klelik hakkna, klelik hakkm da olum kalm hakkna dayatmakla, aka ksr bir dngye dlmyor mu?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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En efecto: es fcil ver que, entre las diferencias que distinguen a los hombres, pasan por naturales muchas que son nicamente obra de la costumbre y de los diversos gneros de vida que llevan los hombres en la sociedad.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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yleyse keyfe bal bir ynetimin yasal bir ynetim olabilmesi iin, halkn onu kabul etmeye ya da etmemeye yetkisi olmaldr. Ancak o zaman ynetim keyfe bal olmaktan kar.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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We are born sensitive and from our birth onwards we are affected in various ways by our environment. As soon as we become conscious of our sensations we tend to seek or shun the things that cause them, at first because they are pleasant or unpleasant, then because they suit us or not, and at last because of judgments formed by means of the ideas of happiness and goodness which reason gives us. These tendencies gain strength and permanence with the growth of reason, but hindered by our habits they are more or less warped by our prejudices. Before this change they are what I call Nature within us.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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se comprender entonces cmo la diferencia de hombre a hombre debe ser menor en el estado de naturaleza que en el de sociedad, y cmo la desigualdad natural debe aumentar en la especie humana por la desigualdad de educacin.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Bu ortaka zgrlk insan yaradlnn bir sonucudur.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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Mais le corps politique ou le souverain ne tirant son tre que de la saintet du contrat ne peut jamais s'obliger, mme envers autrui,  rien qui droge  cet acte primitif, comme d'aliner quelque portion de lui-mme ou de se soumettre  un autre souverain. Violer l'acte par lequel il existe serait s'anantir, et ce qui n'est rien ne produit rien.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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He who would preserve the supremacy of natural feelings in social life knows not what he asks. Ever at war with himself, hesitating between his wishes and his duties, he will be neither a man nor a citizen. He will be of no use to himself nor to others. He will be a man of our day, a Frenchman, an Englishman, one of the great middle class. To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence. When I meet this miracle it will be time enough to decide whether he is a man or a citizen, or how he contrives to be both. Two conflicting types of educational systems spring from these conflicting aims. One is public and common to many, the other private and domestic.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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Hkmdar ya da yasac olsaydm, ne demek gerektiini syleyip vaktimi bouna harcamaz, ya yapacam yapar ya da susardm.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplumsal Szleme veya Siyasal Hukukun Prensipleri
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Hay un hombre de fuerza superior a la ma, y adems bastante depravado, bastante perezoso, bastante feroz para obligarme a proveer a su subsistencia mientras l permanece ocioso?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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In proportion as the ideas and sentiments succeed one another and as the mind and heart are trained, the human race continues to be tamed, relationships spread, and bonds tightened. People grew accustomed to gather in front of their huts or around a large tree; song and dance, true children of love and leisure, became the amusement or rather the occupation of idle men and women who had flocked together. Each one began to look at the others and to want to be looked at himself, and public esteem had a value. The one who sang or danced the best, the handsomest, the strongest, the most adroit, or the most eloquent became the most highly regarded. And this was the first step towards inequality and, at the same time, toward vice. From these first preferences were born vanity and contempt on the one hand, and shame and envy on the other. And the fermentation caused by these new leavens eventually produced compounds fatal to happiness and innocence.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Collection: 7 Classic Works
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 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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E greu s ai o gndire nobil atunci cnd gndeti doar pentru a tri. Spre a putea, spre a ndrzni s spui lucruri mari, trebuie s nu fii legat de succes.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions
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Sera preciso que mi ser moral fuera aniquilada para que la justicia se me volviera indiferente. El espectculo de la injusticia y de la maldad hace an que me hierva la sangre de clera; los actos de virtud en que no veo ni fanfarronera ni ostentacin me hacen siempre vibrar de alegra y todava me arrancan dulces lgrimas.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Cuntos crmenes, guerras, asesinatos; cuntas miserias y horrores habra evitado al gnero humano aquel que hubiese gritado a sus semejantes, arrancando las estacas de la cerca o cubriendo el foso: Guardaos de escuchar a este impostor; estis perdidos si olvidis que los frutos son de todos y la tierra de nadie!
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres
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Oamenii sunt ri; o trist i necontenit experien m scutete de a o mai dovedi. Totui, omul este bun de la natur i cred c am demonstrat acest lucru. Ce oare l-a putut deci deprava pn ntr-atta, dac nu schimbrile survenite n alctuirea lui, progresele pe care le-a fcut, cunotinele pe care le-a dobndit? N-avei dect s admirai orict poftii societatea omeneasc; nu va deveni mai puin adevrat faptul c ea i mpinge n mod necesar pe oameni s se urasc ntre ei pe msur ce interesele lor se ciocnesc, s-i aduc unii altora servicii aparente, fcndu-i de fapt tot rul ce se poate nchipui. Ce se poate crede despre o societate unde raiunea fiecrui individ i dicteaz reguli direct contrare celor pe care raiunea public le predic ansamblului societii i unde fiecare este interesat n nenorocirea altora? (...) Nu exist poate nici un om bogat cruia nite motenitori lacomi, adesea chiar proprii lui copii, s nu-i doreasc n tain moartea; poate nu exist vas pe mare al crui naufragiu s nu constituie o veste bun pentru un anumit negutor; nu exist poate nici o cas pe care un datornic ru de plat s nu doreasc s-o vad arznd mpreun cu hrtiile aflate ntr-nsa; i care este poporul care nu se bucur de nenorocirile vecinilor?
 Jean-Jaques Rousseau
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Mancando le qualit morali di misura precisa, se anche ci fosse l'accordo sul segno, come ci potrebbe essere sulla valutazione?
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract
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Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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Sent antes de pensar: tal es el destino comn de la humanidad, que yo experiment ms que nadie.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Cuanto ms sensible tiene el alma un contemplador, ms se entrega a los xtasis que en l excita ese equilibrio. Una ensoacin dulce y profunda se apodera entonces de sus sentidos, y l se pierde con una deliciosa embriaguez en la inmensidad de ese hermoso sistema con el que se siente nada ms que en el todo.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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Ce n'taient pas des intrigues de femmes qu'il lui fallait, c'taient des entreprises  faire et  diriger. Elle tait ne pour les grandes affaires.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, uvres compltes - 93 titres
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Quand je vois un homme pris de l'amour des connaissances se laisser sduire  leur charme et courir de l'une  l'autre sans savoir s'arrter, je crois voir un enfant sur le rivage amassant des coquilles, et commenant par s'en charger, puis, tent par celles qu'il voit encore, en rejeter, en reprendre jusqu' ce qu'accabl de leur multitude et ne sachant plus que choisir il finisse par tout jeter et retourne  vide.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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El hbito de entrar en m mismo hizo que perdiera al fin el sentimiento y casi el recuerdo de mis males, aprend as por mi propia existencia que la fuente de la verdadera felicidad est en nosotros y que no depende de los hombres el hacer realmente miserable a quien sabe querer ser feliz.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If then the people promises simply to obey, by that very act it dissolves itself and loses what makes it a people; the moment a master exists, there is no longer a Sovereign, and from that moment the body politic has ceased to exist.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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The new-born infant cries, his early days are spent in crying. He is alternately petted and shaken by way of soothing him; sometimes he is threatened, sometimes beaten, to keep him quiet. We do what he wants or we make him do what we want, we submit to his whims or subject him to our own. There is no middle course; he must rule or obey. Thus his earliest ideas are those of the tyrant or the slave. He commands before he can speak, he obeys before he can act, and sometimes he is punished for faults before he is aware of them, or rather before they are committed. Thus early are the seeds of evil passions sown in his young heart. At a later day these are attributed to nature, and when we have taken pains to make him bad we lament his badness. In this way the child passes six or seven years in the hands of women, the victim of his own caprices or theirs, and after they have taught him all sorts of things, when they have burdened his memory with words he cannot understand, or things which are of no use to him, when nature has been stifled by the passions they have implanted in him, this sham article is sent to a tutor. The tutor completes the development of the germs of artificiality which he finds already well grown, he teaches him everything except self-knowledge and self-control, the arts of life and happiness. When at length this infant slave and tyrant, crammed with knowledge but empty of sense, feeble alike in mind and body, is flung upon the world, and his helplessness, his pride, and his other vices are displayed, we begin to lament the wretchedness and perversity of mankind. We are wrong; this is the creature of our fantasy; the natural man is cast in another mould.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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De cte rtciri ar fi ferit raiunea, cte vicii ar fi mpiedicate s se nasc, dac am ti s silim alctuirea animal s devin prielnic ordinei morale pe care o tulbur adesea! Clima, anotimpurile, sunetele, culorile, ntunericul, lumina, elementele, alimentele, zgomotul, tcerea, micarea, repaosul totul acioneaz asupra mainii i asupra sufletului nostru; drept urmare, totul ne ofer mii de fire aproape sigure pentru a stpni la originea lor simmintele de care ne lsm dominai.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions
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Eitsizliin, bu eitli devrimler boyunca ilerleyiini izlersek kanunun ve mlkiyet hakknn kurulmasnn bunun ilk aamas olduunu; yksek grev makamlarnn kurulmasnn ikinci aama, nc ve en son aamann da meru ve kanunlara uygun erkin keyfi erk haline gelmesi olduunu grrz. yle ki zenginin ve fakirin durumu birinci dnem tarafndan, gl ile zayfn durumu ikinci dnem tarafndan, efendi ile klenin durumu da nc dnem tarafndan yasal ve hakl klnmtr.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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The child raised for his station, never leaving it, could not be exposed to the disadvantages of another. But given the mobility of human things, given the unsettled and restless spirit of this age which upsets everything in each generation, can one conceive of a method more senseless than raising a child as though he never had to leave his room, as though he were going to be constantly surrounded by his servants? If the unfortunate makes a single step on the earth, if he goes down a single degree, he is lost. This is not teaching him to bear suffering; it is training him to feel it. One thinks only of preserving ones child. That is not enough. One ought to teach him to preserve himself as a man. to bear the blows of fate, to brave opulence and poverty, to live, if he has to. in freezing Iceland or on Maltas burning rocks. You may very well take precautions against his dying. He will nevertheless have to die. And though his death were not the product of your efforts, still these efforts would be ill conceived. It is less a question of keeping him from dying than of making him live. To live is not to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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Un da, habindome desviado a propsito para contemplar ms de cerca un paisaje admirable, me extasi de tal modo y di tantas vueltas en derredor que al fin me perd completamente.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, LAS CONFESIONES
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Every particular society, when it is narrow and unified, is estranged from the all-encompassing society. Every patriot is harsh to foreigners. They arc only men. They arc nothing in his eyes - This is a drawback, inevitable but not compelling. The essential thing is to be good to the people with whom one lives. Abroad, the Spartan was ambitious, avaricious. iniquitous. But disinterestedness, equity, and concord reigned within his walls. Distrust those cosmopolitans who go to great length in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
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People seek a tutor who has already educated one pupil. This is too much; one man can only educate one pupil; if two were essential to success, what right would he have to undertake the first?
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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