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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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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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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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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.