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• I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Princess, Cake, Bread

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

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• The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hero, Character, Would Be

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• He who blushes is already guilty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Guilty

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• There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Fool

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• Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Philosophical, Romance

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• Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil

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• I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educational, Book, Practice

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

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

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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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Secret, Vices, Likes

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• If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Perfect, Democracy

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• The general will is always right.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Democracy, Politics

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.53, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Eye, Reason

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• The world is woman's book.
  [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, World, Femme

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• Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Medicine, Glasses

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• Childhood is the sleep of reason.
  [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sleep, Childhood, Reason

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• To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mean, Heart, Trying

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• Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sorrow, Increase, Consolation

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• When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Faith, Believe, Long

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• Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, Flow

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• If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Vanity, Law

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• Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sleep, Atmosphere, Prosperity

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• A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
  [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Husband, Children, Women

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• At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Princess, Cake

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1907). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Newly Translated Into English”

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• One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Time, Men, Citizens

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.39, Basic Books

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• The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Eye, Sight

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