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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Days of absence, sad and dreary,Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-Days of absence, I am weary: She I love is far away.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
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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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Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.
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All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
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I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau