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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
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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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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The passions are the voice of the body.
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination they burn me and dazzle me.
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