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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

French - Philosopher | June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom People Free Remember Liberty

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education Time Dare Important Here

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gratitude Thankful Duty Right Expect

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Action Minority Organized Rule

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth Being Infinity Only Falsehood

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man You Say Whatever Forgive May

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death Law True Death Penalty Begin

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great Man Talent Writing Act May

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Performance Slow Faithful Promise

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

Child Learn Know Will First Need

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money Seed Sometimes Difficult First

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature Myself Man Want True Way

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