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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

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

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