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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Giving, Soul, Feelings

"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

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He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Needs, Taxation, May

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In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Weakness, Example

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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Honesty, Men, Thinking

"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 277, 1908.

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Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mean, Passion, Heart

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.384, The Floating Press

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The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Political, Body, Unjust

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Taken, People, Silence

"The Social Contract & Discourses".

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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abuse, Arise, Ennui

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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Vanity, Mad

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children, Sleep, Childhood

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education, Children, Teaching

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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

Wise, Children, Men

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Time, Might, Lost

"A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use". Book by David Evans Macdonnel, 1809.

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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

Men, Birth, Speak

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.340, eKitap Projesi

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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

Book, Loud Voices, Hands

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated from the French”, p.1

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Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty

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The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom, Thinking, Election

"Of the Social Contract".

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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Courage, Criminals, Ridiculous

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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge, Phrases, Knows

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War, Government, Punishment

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I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Infinite, Infinite Power

Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

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Sacrifice life to truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth, Sacrifice

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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Spring, Men, Air

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In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Selfishness, Firsts, Helping

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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Art, Writing, Natural Talent

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Born: June 28, 1712
Died: July 2, 1778
Occupation: Philosopher
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