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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.
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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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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Finance is a slave's word.
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Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength we are born totally unprovided, we need aid we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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The English people think they are free they are greatly deceived they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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The general will is always right.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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