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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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J. J. Rousseau
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Jean Jaques Rousseau
Jean Jeacques Rousseau
John James Rousseau
Johann Jacob Rousseau
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Jan Jakub Rouseau
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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Posterity is always just.
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones bad ones bring about worse.
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful it is as though my book were dining with me.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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