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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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Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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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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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power?
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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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I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world her glory is in the esteem of her husband her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural it is neither tedious nor frivolous it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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