Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
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The general will is always right.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
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Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
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He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.
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That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.