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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

«The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.»
«There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''»
«Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man»
«It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Keywords: shameful
«We do not know what is really good or bad fortune»
«The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force»
«With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.»
«Base souls have no faith in great individuals.»
«Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.»
«Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.»

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