Self-esteem is the strongest incentive to elevated souls: self-pride, fertile in illusions, often disguises itself, and is mistaken for the former; b… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Self-esteem is the strongest incentive to elevated souls: self-pride, fertile in illusions, often disguises itself, and is mistaken for the former; but when once the fraud is discovered, the danger ceases; for though it is difficult to eradicate it entirely, it may easily be kept in subjection.

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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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Düşse, başı şişse, burnu kanasa, parmaklarını kesse, çevresinde telaşlı bir halle dört dönecek yerde, hiç olmazsa az bir süre dingin kalırım. Olan olmuştur, buna katlanması zorunludur; benim tüm telaşım onu daha çok ürkütmekten ve duyarlılığını artırmaktan başka bir şeye yaramayacaktır. Aslında, insan yaralandığında onu üzen, yaradan çok korkudur. Ben hiç olmazsa onu bu korkudan kurtaracağım; çünkü çok kesin olarak, acısını benim bu acıyı nasıl değerlendirdiğimi görerek değerlendirecektir; benim kaygıyla yanına koştuğumu, kendisini avuttuğumu, kendisine acıdığımı görürse, kendisini mahvolmuş hissedecektir; benim soğukkanlılığımı koruduğumu görürse, o da hemen yeniden soğukkanlılığına kavuşacak, acıyı artık hissetmeyince de geçtiğini sanacaktır. İşte bu yaşta ilk cesaret dersleri alınır ve hafif acılara korkmadan dayanarak, yavaş yavaş büyük acılara dayanmak öğrenilir.

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses. If we are to avoid mistake in weighing one against the other, we must clearly distinguish natural liberty, which is bounded only by the strength of the individual, from civil liberty, which is limited by the general will; and possession, which is merely the effect of force or the right of the first occupier, from property, which can be founded only on a positive title.

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The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

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