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• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sad, Death, Silence

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• A feeble body weakens the mind.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mind, Body, Feeble Minds

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius, Or, An Essay on Education”, p.33

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• To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

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  Love, Writing, Mean

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• Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

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  Life, Cute, Philosophical

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• A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

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  Motivational, Moving, Men

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• Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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  Evil, Flow

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius; Or, an Essay on Education”, p.22

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• Money is the seed of money.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Seeds

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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• One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

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  Thinking, Slave, Masters

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

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  Memories, Smell, Desire

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• Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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  Cities, Abyss, Humans

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.59, Basic Books

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• Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

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  Book, Mean, Simple

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• There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Dungeons, Enough, Social Contract

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• If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Majority, Groups

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• Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

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  Heart, Men, Arguing

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• I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

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  Thinking, Support, Superstitions

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• Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

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  Moving, Journey, Thinking

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• Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Libertarian, Injustice

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• The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

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  Freedom, Believe, People

  "Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, III, Ch. 15, 1913.

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• I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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  Hate, Book, Philosophical

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.292, eKitap Projesi

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• Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

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  Law, Liberty, Obedience

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• Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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  Funny, Weed, Wedding

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• As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

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  Men, Doe, May

  Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

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• I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

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  Children, Long, Stills

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• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

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  Laughter, Teaching, Heart

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• Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

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  Nature, Children, Men

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