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• Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Religious, Believer, Rascals

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• Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Hands, World

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Technology, Age

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• The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Liberty, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl”, p.30

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• I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Rocks, Years, Giving

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• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, p.346

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• Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Riches, Firsts

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.621, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Greatness, Men, Use

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• One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  May, Doe, Dungeons

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• The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Limits, Knows

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education Volume Ii EasyRead la”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Teaching, Men, Needs

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Home, Blow

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• Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Animal, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

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• Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Teach, Fall Back

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.288, eKitap Projesi

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• Finance is a slave's word.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Finance, Slave

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Perfect, Appearance, Subjection

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.257, UPNE

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• Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Innocence, Ashamed

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

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• It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mind, Host, Concern

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Land, Environmental

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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• Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, People, Mind

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.369, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  World Suffering, Too Much, This World

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• Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Anxiety, Anxious

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• The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Men, He Man

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  God, People, Sane

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