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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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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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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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The English people think they are free they are greatly deceived they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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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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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
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If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.
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Money is the seed of money.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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