Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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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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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
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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.
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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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I only see clearly what I remember.