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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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J. J. Rousseau
Rousseau
Jean Jaques Rousseau
Jean Jeacques Rousseau
John James Rousseau
Johann Jacob Rousseau
Juan Jacobo Rousseau
Jan Jakub Rouseau
Gian Giacomo Rousseau
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G. G. Rousseau
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Citizen of Geneva
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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A person who can break wind is not dead.
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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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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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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination they burn me and dazzle me.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
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There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
