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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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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John James Rousseau
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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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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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
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By doing good we become good.
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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
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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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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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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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