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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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If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
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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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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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I only see clearly what I remember.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.
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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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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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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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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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