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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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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
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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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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.
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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
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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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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
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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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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away.
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The happiest is he who suffers least the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government she is in the heart of the free man he bears her with him everywhere.
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
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