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Jean Jacques Rousseau Inspirational Quotes (225)

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Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Girls must be thwarted early in life.
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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I only see clearly what I remember.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Posterity is always just.
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Money is the seed of money.
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A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
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But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists to see it, one must feel it.
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Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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