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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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J. J. Rousseau
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Jean Jeacques Rousseau
John James Rousseau
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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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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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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
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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 writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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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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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart but women will read the heart of man better than they.
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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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