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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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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
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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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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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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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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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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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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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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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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
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