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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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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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