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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Health
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Words
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Silence
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adversity
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Misfortunes
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modesty
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wealth
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faith
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Uncategorised
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Conscience
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Judgment and Judges
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Endurance
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life and Living
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame
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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laughter
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gratitude
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Greatness
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heroes and Heroism
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heroes and Heroism
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enjoyment
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suffering
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Uniqueness
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Insults
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confession
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Work
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confession
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nation
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evil
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Goodness
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Speakers and Speaking
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Marriage
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Repentance
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Slavery
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophers and Philosophy
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Risk
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Physician
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Government
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nationalities and Nationalism
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Election
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Secrets
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Coward and Cowardice
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Age and Aging
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Integrity
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Projects
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Promise
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adversity
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To live is not breathing it is action.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life and Living
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birth
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fortune
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sympathy
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Motivation
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wisdom
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Guilt
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Correction
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Uncategorised
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