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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of 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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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
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A person who can break wind is not dead.
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Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart but women will read the heart of man better than they.
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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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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer they all affect magnificence and splendor.
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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 do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn we taste nothing in its purity we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
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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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It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
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In the North the first words are, Help me in the South, Love me.
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