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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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J. J. Rousseau
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John James Rousseau
Johann Jacob Rousseau
Juan Jacobo Rousseau
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Gian Giacomo Rousseau
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If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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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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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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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful it is as though my book were dining with me.
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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