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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
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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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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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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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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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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
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Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
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Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
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