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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, Wise, Jesus

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.308, Basic Books

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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Country, Eye, Sight

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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Years, Giving

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.42, Basic Books

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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Science, Men, Discovery

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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".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Princess, Cake, Bread

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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He who blushes is already guilty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Guilty

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The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hero, Character, Would Be

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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Vanity, Fool

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love, Philosophical, Romance

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I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Educational, Book, Practice

Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

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As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Night, Lakes, Islands

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Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Evil

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The general will is always right.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Democracy, Politics

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.53, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Perfect, Democracy

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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Secret, Vices, Likes

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Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth, Eye, Reason

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Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Science, Medicine, Glasses

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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sorrow, Increase, Consolation

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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mean, Heart, Trying

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
[Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sleep, Childhood, Reason

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When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Faith, Believe, Long

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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Evil, Flow

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If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Christian, Vanity, Law

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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sleep, Atmosphere, Prosperity

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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.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Husband, Children, Women

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Born: June 28, 1712
Died: July 2, 1778
Occupation: Philosopher
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