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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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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
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I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer they all affect magnificence and splendor.
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In the North the first words are, Help me in the South, Love me.
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The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
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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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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.
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