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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: French writer and philosopher
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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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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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
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