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I hate books they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Finance is a slave's word.
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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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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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