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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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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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