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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
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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J. J. Rousseau
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John James Rousseau
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
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The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.
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The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.
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I hate books they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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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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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
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I only see clearly what I remember.
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The happiest is he who suffers least the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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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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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists to see it, one must feel it.
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