Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

• Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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• The truth brings no man a fortune.

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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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• Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

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• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

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• Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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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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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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• We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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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.

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• The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (88)

Birth:	28th June, 1712
Death:	2nd July, 1778
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a Swiss-born French philosopher, novelist and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought. He wrote several books include: Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (essay), Discourse on Inequality, Julie, or the New Heloise (novel), Emile, or On Education (novel), The Social Contract, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and Confessions (autobiography).

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