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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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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If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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