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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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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Good laws lead to the making of better ones bad ones bring about worse.
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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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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
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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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Supreme happiness consists in self-content that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.
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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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Girls must be thwarted early in life.
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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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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
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