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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
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 empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
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The happiest is he who suffers least the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
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