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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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J. J. Rousseau
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Jean Jaques Rousseau
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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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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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.
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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
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