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Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
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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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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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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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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