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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
Autobiographer
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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
Zhan Zhak Russo
Citizen of Geneva
Citoyen de Genève
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world her glory is in the esteem of her husband her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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By doing good we become good.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
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The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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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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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
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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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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease delicacy is not debility nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.
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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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