Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseauwas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 June 1712
CityGeneva, Switzerland
CountryFrance
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
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The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body