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• Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Children, Taught

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1894). “Émile; Or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three Books”

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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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Time, Philosophical

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• Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, May

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.163, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Deceiving, Reason, Conscience

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• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jesus, Pain, Wish To Die

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• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  World, Madness, Madmen

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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• Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Firsts, Judgment, Mistaken

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• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Business, Philosophical

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

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Faith, Philosophical

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• Girls must be thwarted early in life.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Girl, British History

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• Trust your heart rather than your head.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Trust Your Heart

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• All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Honesty, Eye, Atheism

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• Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Self, Supreme

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

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• Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law

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• The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Deceived

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.131, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hurt, Children, Important

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.139, eKitap Projesi

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• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Physicians

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• Social man lives constantly outside himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Social

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2005). “On the Origin of Inequality”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Escaping, Desire, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.88, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Desire, Oneself

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• I may be no better, but at least I am different.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Different, May

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

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• I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Faith, Perceive

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.277, Basic Books

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• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Justice, Diversity, Judging

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.355, UPNE

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• In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Punishment, Criminals, Decay

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.145, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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