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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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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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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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Money is the seed of money.
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A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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By doing good we become good.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
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