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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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 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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There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away.
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
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Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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