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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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 want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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 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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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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