Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Geneva
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11 November 2014
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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11 November 2014
The first man, who after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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11 November 2014
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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11 November 2014
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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11 November 2014
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.
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11 November 2014
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.
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11 November 2014
Everything that comes out of the hands of the Creator of all things is good, everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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11 November 2014
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
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11 November 2014
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
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11 November 2014
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
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