Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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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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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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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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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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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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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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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]