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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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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
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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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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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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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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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