Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Oh providence! Oh nature! Treasure of the poor, resource of the unfortunate. The person who feels, knows your holy laws and trusts them, the person whose heart is at peace and whose body does not suffer, thanks to you is not entirely prey to adversity.
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He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.
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The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
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For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
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Foxley translation
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.