4 Quotes & Sayings By Rousseau Jeanjacques 17121778

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His father was a watchmaker. Rousseau's early education was at the Collège de Clermont (which he left after one year because of its Calvinistic teachings), and then at the Lycée de la Trinité in Lyon. He took part in the French Revolution as a republican and was sent to Paris as an envoy to the court of Louis XVI Read more

He played no active part, but his house was searched by the Committee of Public Safety because he had not made any anti-revolutionary remarks. Unable to support himself during the Reign of Terror, he took to writing, having already produced some political pamphlets. His first work, Émile or On Education, appeared anonymously during 1762; his second work, Discourse on Inequality, appeared under his own name in 1773.

The Discourse on Inequality became one of the most famous statements of his philosophy of life. It contains arguments for the inequality of men and women, for autocracy over democracy, for slavery over freedom. The Discourse on Inequality is an eloquent defense of inequality and autocracy as appropriate institutions for human society.

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The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the passions; in course of time it also destroys the body; fasting and penance often produce the same results in an opposite way. The weaker the body, the more imperious its demands; the stronger it is, the better it obeys. All sensual passions find their home in effeminate bodies; the less satisfaction they can get the keener their sting. . Rousseau JeanJacques 17121778
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I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. Rousseau JeanJacques 17121778
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect Rousseau JeanJacques 17121778