Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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More Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
More on Love
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
