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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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John James Rousseau
Johann Jacob Rousseau
Juan Jacobo Rousseau
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Gian Giacomo Rousseau
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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
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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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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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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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Finance is a slave's word.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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