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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Age: 66 †
Born: 1712
Born: June 28
Died: 1778
Died: July 2
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Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
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I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer they all affect magnificence and splendor.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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