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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Death - Leadership - Sadness - Silence
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Knowledge - Limits
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
Flow
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
Cultivation - Education - Giving - Judging - Man - Stupid - Weakness
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
Citizenry - Conditioning - Enjoying - Kindness - Right
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
Age - Chance - Death - Extraordinary - Finding - Man - Oblivion - Poverty - Refuse - Soul - Talent - Yielding
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.
Constitution - Force - Giving - Good - Possession
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Adversity - Bitterness - Consciousness - Philosophy - Prosperity - Sleeping
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
Children - Feelings - Foolishness - Thinking - Trial
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
Adversity - Insomnia - Prosperity - Sleeping
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
Man
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Age - Pleasure - Regret
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Fame - People
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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
Destructiveness - Law - Legislature - Meaning - People - Selecting - Terrorism
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Guilt - Innocence - Nothing
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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.
Fall - Home - Intention - Missing
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Acquiring - Difficulty - Money - Sometimes
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Pride - Vanity
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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God made me and broke the mold.
Making
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
Citizenry - Imaginary - People - Soul - World
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