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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Funny, Weed, Wedding

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, Liberty, Obedience

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Men, Please

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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