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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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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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