QUOTES by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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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."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
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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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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."
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"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
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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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"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
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"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
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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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"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences"
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"The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty"
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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect"
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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."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
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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."
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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."
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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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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
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"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
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"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties"
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"Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess"
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"When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime"
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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"
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau