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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
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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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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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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.
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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I hate books they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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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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