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Jean Jacques Rousseau Inspirational Quotes (225)

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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
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If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world her glory is in the esteem of her husband her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away.
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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
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