Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (73)

Birth:	28th June, 1712
Death:	2nd July, 1778
Nationality:	French, Swiss
Profession:	Composer, Novelist, Philosopher

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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• Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

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• The truth brings no man a fortune.

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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.

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

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• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

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

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• Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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• When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

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• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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• We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

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• We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

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• 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.

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• Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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• To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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

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

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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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