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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Age: 66 †
Born: 1712
Born: June 28
Died: 1778
Died: July 2
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
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The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.
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Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
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War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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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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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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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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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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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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