Good laws lead to the making of better.. Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Swiss

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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

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