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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

French writer and philosopher

Lived from: 1712 - 1778

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 28 june 1712 Died: 2 july 1778

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  • Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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  • How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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  • I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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  • I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
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  • I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
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  • Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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  • It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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  • It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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  • Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
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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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  • Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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  • Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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  • Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
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  • Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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  • Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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  • Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
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  • People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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  • Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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  • Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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  • Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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