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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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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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If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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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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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
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Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
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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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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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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn we taste nothing in its purity we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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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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