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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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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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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn we taste nothing in its purity we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
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It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones bad ones bring about worse.
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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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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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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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Posterity is always just.
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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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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There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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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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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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