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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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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
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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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The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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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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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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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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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful it is as though my book were dining with me.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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