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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
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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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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
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