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Rousseau's famous words
Rousseau's famous sayings

1. Social order is a sacred right that provides the foundation for all other rights. But this right is based on contract, not from nature. -On Social Contract

2. Where flowers are decaying, human beings can't live

3. Humans are divided into flocks of cattle and sheep, and each group has its own leader. The leader protects them just to eat them. Anyone born under slavery is born as a slave; -

On Social Contract

4. Anything that involves the needs I feel will make me calm. Only when I completely give up my physical interests, can I taste the real taste-

The daydream of a lonely walker

5. A paralyzed person wants to run, while a vigorous person doesn't want to run.

6. I am undoubtedly a good teacher; However, the tuition fees charged by this teacher are very high, and what students get from him is often not worth the tuition fees paid.

7. War is by no means a relationship between people, but a relationship between countries; In the war, individuals and individuals never become enemies with the qualifications of people, or even citizens, but only with the qualifications of soldiers; A country can only take other countries as its enemies, not people as its enemies. -

8. It is true that the relationship between people at that time was not as we are now, and the communication between people was no more than that between people and animals, but he still wouldn't ignore the observation of his peers. Over time, he could find the similarities between them and between him and women. When he found that under the same circumstances, other people's practices were exactly the same as his, he naturally guessed that other people's ways of thinking and action were also exactly the same as his. This important discovery, once deeply imprinted in his mind, will form an intuition in his mind that is more certain but far faster than reasoning, prompting him to pursue a behavior that is most beneficial to his own security and interests. -"On the Origin of Human Inequality"

9. We have no right to put people to death, even if it is just a warning, except for those who cannot be without danger if they are preserved. -"Social Contract Theory"

1. Ignorance is by no means a curse, but only confusion. A confused person is often not because he doesn't know, but because he thinks he knows.

11. Egoism can't be confused with self-esteem. Both of them are different in terms of their essence or their influence. Self-esteem is a natural emotion, which makes every animal pay attention to its own survival. In human beings, it is guided by reason and restrained by compassion, thus producing humanity and virtue. Egoism, on the other hand, is purely a relative and unnatural emotion, which comes into being in society. It makes individuals pay more attention to themselves than to anyone else, and makes people conflict and attack each other. Egoism is the real source of "sense of honor". -"On the Origin of Human Inequality"

12. As a regulation, law is less binding than desire. It can only restrict people but cannot change them. -"On the Origin of Human Inequality"

13. If all kinds of sciences can dispel the customs, if they can teach people to bleed for the motherland, if they can inspire people's courage; Then the people of China should be smart, free and unconquerable-On Science and Art

14. God is just; He wants me to suffer; However, he knew that I was innocent. It is from this that my confidence comes into being; My heart and my reason shouted to me and told me that my confidence would never be deceived by me. Therefore, let people and fate do this and that, I will learn to endure without resentment or Aidit; Everything will return to normal order, and my turn will come sooner or later. -"The daydream of a lonely rambler"

15. If it flows, it will flow away; If it is still, it will dry up; If you grow, you will slowly wither. This world is not eternal. -"Confessions"

16. Warm friendship and kind heart can comfort us when we suffer. Even when we are happy, if no one shares our joy, we will feel lonely and depressed.

17. It can be said that taste is a microscope of taste.

18, life itself has no value, its value lies in how to use it.

19. Social governance should be based entirely on this common interest.

People always want to be happy, but people don't always see happiness clearly. -

On Social Contract

2. There is no greater gap between the gentleness of patriarchy and the cruelty of authoritarian government in the world, because the submissives get much more benefits from patriarchy than those in power. It should not be said that society comes from patriarchy, but that the main source of power of patriarchy is civilized society. Only when children gather around him can he be considered as the father of these children. Father is the real master of his own property, and his property is attached to him by his children. Unless the children obey his will and make him satisfied, he can give them nothing. However, subjects can't expect any similar benefits from their monarch. They and their property belong to the monarch, at least the monarch himself thinks so. Therefore, when the monarch left them a small amount of wealth, they were grateful. It was a favor for the monarch to let them live, and it was also fair to exploit them. -"On the Origin of Human Inequality"

21. Because people don't know good, they must be born evil. People are evil because they don't know what good is; He won't give any help to his companions, because he thinks they have no right to ask him to help, or he thinks he has the right to get anything he wants, even stupid enough to think he is the master of the whole world. -"On the Origin of Human Inequality"

22. When I say that the object of law is always universal, I mean that the law only considers the * * * identity and abstract behavior of subjects, and never considers individual people and individual behaviors. We don't need to ask who should make laws, because laws are acts of general will; We don't need to ask whether the monarch is above the law, because the monarch is also a member of the country; There is no need to ask whether the law will be unfair, because no one will be unfair to himself-

23. There is often a great difference between public will and public will: public will only focuses on the interests of the public, while public will is the sum of individual will, which only focuses on private interests. However, the positive and negative of these individual wills are offset, and the rest is still the general will. -On Social Contract

24. If we are allowed to live forever in this world, who will accept this unlucky gift? -Emile

25. God created me, but I broke the mold-Emile

26. God created me and then broke the mold-Emile.