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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Doe, May

Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, Fear, Lying

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophical, Opposites, Risk

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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Responsibility, Childhood, Wake Up

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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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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love, Writing, Mean

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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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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children, Men, Desire

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Motivational, Trust, Nature

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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Women, Reading, Book

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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Animal, Reflection, Men

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Nature, Heart

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.169, Basic Books

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I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children, Long, Stills

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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, May, Covenant

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Money is the seed of money.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inspirational, Seeds

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Real, Men, Two

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dungeons, Enough, Social Contract

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General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth, Eye, Men

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With The Reveries of the Solitary Walker”

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Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laughter, Teaching, Heart

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Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Heart, Past, Joy

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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Birthday, Education, Men

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

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Sacrifice life to truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth, Sacrifice

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God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mold, Broke, Made

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That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Desire, Doe

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.99, eKitap Projesi

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