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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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Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.
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If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural it is neither tedious nor frivolous it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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Finance is a slave's word.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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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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We lose all that time which we might employ better.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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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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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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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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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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