Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Citations en anglais

Jean-Jacques Rousseau était philosophe, compositeur et critique musical genevois. Citations en anglais.
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“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

“… in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau livre Du Contrat social

Source: The Social Contract

“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau livre Du Contrat social

Source: The Social Contract

“There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau livre Les Confessions

Source: Confessions

“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.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau livre Du Contrat social

Source: The Social Contract

“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Source: Emile or On Education

“There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau livre Du Contrat social

Source: The Social Contract

“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau livre Du Contrat social

Source: The Social Contract

“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Source: Reveries of the Solitary Walker

“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”

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Jean Jacques Rousseau livre Les Confessions

Source: Confessions