Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one alway… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.

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Alternative Names: Citizen of Geneva • Jean Jacques Rousseau • J. J. Rousseau • Rousseau • J.J. Rousseau • JJ Rousseau

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If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..

Above all he is jealous of his own self-respect; this is his most valued possession and it would be a real loss to him were he to acquire the respect of others at the expense of his own.

Oh, mein Freund, bleibe aufrecht stehen, du wirst doch immer der Erde ziemlich nahe sein.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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