The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy was influential during the Age of Enlightenment, as well as during the French Revolution.

More quotations from Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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More quotations tagged with “duty”

The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.

—James Thurber

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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

—George Eliot

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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