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