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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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Supreme happiness consists in self-content that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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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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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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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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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Money is the seed of money.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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