Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.
To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and ev… - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and ev…
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.
Truth is no road to fortune. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Truth is no road to fortune.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
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