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Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
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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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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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
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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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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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In the North the first words are, Help me in the South, Love me.
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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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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
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If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
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