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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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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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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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
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Everything made by man may be destroyed by man there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
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There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
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Girls must be thwarted early in life.
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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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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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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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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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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
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A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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