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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
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