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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Profession : Philosopher
Birth : June 28, 1712
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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
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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