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Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1712-1778] French

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought.

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.	Patience	101
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?	Life	102
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.	Brainy, Great, Men	103
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.	Truth	104
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.		105
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.	Imagination	106
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.		107
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.	Life	108
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.		109
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.		110
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.	Nature	111
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.	Men	112
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.	Death	113
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.	Freedom	114
A feeble body weakens the mind.	Fitness	115
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.		116
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.	Education, Strength	117
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.		118
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.		119
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.	Alone, Gardening	120
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.	Women	121
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.		122
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.	Money	123
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.		124
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.	Death	125
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.		126
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.		201
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.	Happiness	202
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.	War	203
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?	Great, Wisdom	204
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.		205
I may be no better, but at least I am different.		206
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.	Education	207
I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.		208
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.		209
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.		210
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.		211
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.	Thankful	212
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.		213
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.		214
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.		215
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.		216
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.		217
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.		218
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.		219
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.		220
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.		221
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.		222
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.		223
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.	Faith	224
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.	Knowledge	225
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.		226
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.		301
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.		302
I only see clearly what I remember.		303
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.		304
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.		305
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.		306
God made me and broke the mold.		307
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.		308
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.	Good	309
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.	Knowledge	310
Childhood is the sleep of reason.		311
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.		312
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.		313
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.		314
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.		315
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.		316
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?	Famous	317

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