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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
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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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
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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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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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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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