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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.

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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