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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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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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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The general will is always right.
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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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