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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
Autobiographer
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J. J. Rousseau
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Jean Jaques Rousseau
Jean Jeacques Rousseau
John James Rousseau
Johann Jacob Rousseau
Juan Jacobo Rousseau
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Gian Giacomo Rousseau
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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Girls must be thwarted early in life.
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Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
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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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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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