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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People, Majority, Groups

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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fall, Home, Blow

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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge, Limits, Knows

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education Volume Ii EasyRead la”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature, Children, Men

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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Hands, Generosity

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Funny, Weed, Wedding

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Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Heart, Men, Arguing

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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Science, Technology, Age

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Teaching, Men, Needs

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

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The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People, Gunpowder, Lost

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The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Women, Tears, Addresses

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Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inspirational, Education, Maturity

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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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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Law, Liberty, Obedience

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Evil, Flow

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius; Or, an Essay on Education”, p.22

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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hate, Book, Philosophical

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.292, eKitap Projesi

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One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

May, Doe, Dungeons

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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Innocence, Guilty, Ashamed

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

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A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mind, Body, Feeble Minds

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius, Or, An Essay on Education”, p.33

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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sports, Laughter, Heart

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Believe, Being Different, Venture

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1996). “The Confessions”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Art, People, Mind

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.369, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Rights, Humanity

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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