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The passions are the voice of the body.
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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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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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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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
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I hate books they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Posterity is always just.
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