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By doing good we become good.
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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J. J. Rousseau
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Jean Jaques Rousseau
Jean Jeacques Rousseau
John James Rousseau
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Juan Jacobo Rousseau
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Gian Giacomo Rousseau
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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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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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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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In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I hate books they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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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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The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
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I only see clearly what I remember.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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