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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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Money is the seed of money.
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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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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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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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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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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
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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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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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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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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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