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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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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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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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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural it is neither tedious nor frivolous it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world her glory is in the esteem of her husband her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
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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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Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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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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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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The happiest is he who suffers least the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
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