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Jean Jacques Rousseau Inspirational Quotes (225)

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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government she is in the heart of the free man he bears her with him everywhere.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The general will is always right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease delicacy is not debility nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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