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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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Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease delicacy is not debility nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.
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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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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
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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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The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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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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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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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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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
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