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Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
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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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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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Everything made by man may be destroyed by man there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
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