Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
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One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake'.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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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.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
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Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
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The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
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I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.
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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]