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• Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Teach, Fall Back

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.288, eKitap Projesi

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• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Delight

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• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, p.346

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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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• Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Moving, Journey, Thinking

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• The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Men, He Man

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Escaping, Desire, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.88, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Majority Rule, Political, Minorities

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• Finance is a slave's word.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Finance, Slave

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Land, Environmental

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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• The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Believe, People

  "Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, III, Ch. 15, 1913.

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• We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Errors

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• Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Riches, Firsts

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.621, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Liberty, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl”, p.30

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• Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Hands, World

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Melting, Delirium, Ecstasy

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• Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Animal, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

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• The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Miserable, Enjoy

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.91, eKitap Projesi

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• Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Cute, Philosophical

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• Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Libertarian, Injustice

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• Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, May

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.163, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Perfect, Appearance, Subjection

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.257, UPNE

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• A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Fool

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• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sad, Death, Silence

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