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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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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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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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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The happiest is he who suffers least the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.
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For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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