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Famous Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.”
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
“All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.”
“I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.”
“Cities are the abyss of the human species.”
“Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.”
“There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.”
“There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?”
“A feeble body weakens the mind.”
“Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.”
“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”
“The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.”
“Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.”