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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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J. J. Rousseau
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John James Rousseau
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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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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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength we are born totally unprovided, we need aid we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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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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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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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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