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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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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Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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The happiest is he who suffers least the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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The English people think they are free they are greatly deceived they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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