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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in 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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The passions are the voice of the body.
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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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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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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I hate books they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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