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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  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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• 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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• She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shoes, Ties, Unattractive

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• We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Soul, Doubt

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• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Doors, Justice, Diversity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

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• The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Naked, Red, Middle

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• Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Curiosity, Taught

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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophical, Order

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• Posterity is always just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reputation, Posterity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly (1998). “The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes”, p.582, UPNE

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• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

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  Thinking, Example, May

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• Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Mind, Use

  Emile Bk 1 (1762)

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• I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Swag, Said

  "Confessions". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, VIII, 1782.

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• A person who can break wind is not dead.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wind, Break, Persons

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• It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Illumination, Soul

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

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• If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

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  Men, People, Perfect

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• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

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  Son, Men, May

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• Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Knowledge, Genius

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• Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Way, Half

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• I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Able, Should

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• Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Law, Internet

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

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• Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Faith, Soul, Individual

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