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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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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The happiest is he who suffers least the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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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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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
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