Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

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Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluitie — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics