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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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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
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We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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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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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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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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