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Sacrifice life to truth.
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Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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God made me and broke the mold.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
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We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.
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Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
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As a general rule-never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itself; for the child's attention is so taken up with the symbol that he will forget what it signifies.
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There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau