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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
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Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease delicacy is not debility nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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