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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
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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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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
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