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• Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Faith, Philosophical

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• Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.350, eKitap Projesi

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• The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Coward, Cowardice, Braggarts

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• Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Deceiving, Reason, Conscience

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• Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Firsts, Judgment, Mistaken

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• Girls must be thwarted early in life.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Girl, British History

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• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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• Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Race, Civilization, Evil

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• I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Faith, Perceive

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.277, Basic Books

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• Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

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  Educational, Stupid, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

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• I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Doe, Want

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2011). “Reveries of the Solitary Walker”, p.129, OUP Oxford

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• One can buy anything with money except morality.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shopping, Morality

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• No one is happy unless he respects himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Respect, Self Respect, Ethics

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• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

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  Jesus, Pain, Wish To Die

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• The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Time, Philosophical

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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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hurt, Children, Important

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.139, eKitap Projesi

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• Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Children, Taught

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1894). “Émile; Or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three Books”

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• Trust your heart rather than your head.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Trust Your Heart

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• All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Honesty, Eye, Atheism

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• Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Self, Supreme

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.292, Courier Corporation

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• The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

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  Sweet, Philosophical, Animal

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Luxury, Riches, Poor

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  World Suffering, Too Much, This World

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• All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Wells, Fellows

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