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• Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Memories, Smell, Desire

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• A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Motivational, Moving, Men

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• The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Pride, Vanity, Nationalism

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• To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophical, Learning

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• I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Support, Superstitions

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• The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Order, Visible, Supreme

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.526, The Floating Press

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• God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2008). “Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.275, Wildside Press LLC

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• Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, Mean, Simple

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• Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Nature, Character, Men

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• Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Mad

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Order, Soul, Doubt

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• Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Perfection, Abstinence, Reason

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• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

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• Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

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  Anxiety, Anxious

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• It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

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  Support, World, Conquer

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• ...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Citizens, Riches, Enough

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

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  Cat, Smell, Watches

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• There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Book, Buffon

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• Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

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  Men, Eulogy, Age

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• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

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  Passion, Independent, Men

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• A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

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  Knowledge, Men, Silence

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.208

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• A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

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  Children, Thinking, Hands

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.53, eKitap Projesi

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• We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

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  People, Wigs, Bread

  "The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages".

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• Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

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  Desire, May, Want

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• There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Made

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alan Ritter, Julia Conaway Bondanella (1988). “Rousseau's political writings: new translations, interpretive notes, backgrounds, commentaries”, W. W. Norton & Company

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