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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Beautiful, Wall, Truth

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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Forgiving, Ordinary

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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fire, Inspire, Soul

'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11

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Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Taste And Judgment, Speak, Microscopes

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sympathy, Philosophy, Philosophical

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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Country, Men, Perfect

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Order, Sick, Grace

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.186

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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Kings, Philosophy, Thinking

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Society, Human Nature

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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Believe, Book, Abuse

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.450, Basic Books

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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Communication, Government, Law

"The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"".

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Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Self, Earth, May

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.292, Courier Corporation

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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Citizens, Demand, Sovereign

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.174, Hackett Publishing

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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People, Different, May

"Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Book 1, 182.

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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Adversity, Sleep, Insomnia

"Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.

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I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Unique, Being Unique, May

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For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fate, Ill Will, Endurance

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Imagination, Speak

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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.
[Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Women, Blue, Long

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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Writing, Soul, Desire

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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Guilt, Innocence, Shame

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Simple, Vanity, Ego

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

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To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Science, Men, Discovery

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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inspired, Bearable, Persons

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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Years, Giving

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.42, Basic Books

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