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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
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Women have the same desires as men, but do not have the same right to express them.
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As a general rule—never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itself; for the child's attention is so taken up with the symbol that he will forget what it signifies.
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I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things, everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory.
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Habit accustoms us to everything. What we see too much, we no longer imagine; and it is only imagination which makes us feel the ills of others. It is thus by dint of seeing death and suffering that priests and doctors become pitiless.
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child — the most important lesson for every time of life — is this: 'Never hurt anybody'.
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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Knowledge, wit, and courage alone excite our admiration; and thou, sweet and modest Virtue, remainest without honors.
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The sowing of wild oats is necessary in the life of a man. Libertinism is a leaven that ferments sooner or later.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.
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The source of all passions is sensitiveness: it is the errors of imagination that transform them into vices.
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A small number of men and women think for the million; through them the million speak and act.
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All passions are good when one masters them; all are bad when one is a slave to them.
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
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The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
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Tranquility is found also in dungeons; but is that enough to make them desirable places to live in?
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
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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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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Born:
June 28, 1712
Died:
July 2, 1778
(aged 66)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century.
Known for:
The Social Contract (1762)
Emile, or On Education (1762)
Confessions
Discourse on Inequality (1755)
Julie, or the New Heloise (1761)
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