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101 " Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault. "
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Emile, or On Education
102 " There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. "
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , The Social Contract
103 " حتى لو كان في وسع الفلاسفة أن يكتشفوا الحقيقة من منهم يهتم بها؟ كل واحد منهم يعلم أن مقولته ليست أوثق تأصيلاً من غيرها، لكنه يتشبث بها لأنها من إبداعه. لا واحد منهم حتى لو تبين الحق وميزه عن الباطل، يفضل الحق الذي أبدعه غيره عن الباطل الذي اخترعه هو. أين الفيلسوف الذي يتورع عن خداع النوع البشري إن كان في ذلك إنقاذ لسمعته؟ أين الفيلسوف الذي في قرارة قلبه يتوخى غير الشهرة والنبوغ؟ كل ما يصبو إليه هو أن يسمو عن العامة، وأن يطفئ نوره نور أقرانه. لا يهمه سوى مخالفة الغير، إن كان بين المؤمنين فهو ملحد، وإن كان بين الملحدين فهو مؤمن. "
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , دين الفطرة
104 " انزع من قلب الإنسان حب الجمال تسلب الحياة روعتها وجاذبيتها. "
105 " To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws. "
106 " MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. "
107 " يا مكوّن الأكوان, أنا موجود لأنك موجود, إن أصررت على تأمل ذلك فلأني متعطش إلى المنبع توّاق إلى عين الحق. أعزّ ما أجني من استعمال العقل هو التفاني في جلالك. إن عقلي لينبهر, ويحلو لي القصور والعجز إذ أشعر بعزك وجبروتك. "
108 " What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor? "
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe; And, the State of War
109 " رُحت أتأمل وضع بني آدم البئيسين، يسبحون في بحر هائل من الآراء لا دليل لهم ولا مشير. تتقاذفهم أهواؤهم الهائجة، لا معين لهم سوى ملاح غير مجرب، يجهل الطريق، لا يعرف من أين أتى وأين يتجه. كنت أسرّ لنفسي: أتوخى الحق، أبحث عنه ولا أتبيّنه. ليرشدني إليه مرشد وسأتعلق به طول حياتي. لماذا يحتجب الحق عن قلب متشوق إليه متحمس لعبادته ؟ "
110 " The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. "
111 " ما يحزّ في قلبي عند الإنزلاق هو أني اعلم اني كنت قادراً على الصمود "
112 " Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8) "
113 " Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant. "
114 " There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? "
115 " The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. "
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
116 " The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence, they become slaves, and that their very freedom is wasted in vain attempts to assure its continuance. That they may not be carried away by the flood of things, they form all sorts of attachments; then as soon as they wish to move forward they are surprised to find that everything drags them back. It seems to me that to set oneself free we need do nothing, we need only continue to desire freedom. "
117 " If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation. "
118 " Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before. "
119 " Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3) "
120 " My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time. "
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions