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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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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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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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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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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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Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength we are born totally unprovided, we need aid we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
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There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
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The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
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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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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
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