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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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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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In the North the first words are, Help me in the South, Love me.
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There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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