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“I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Believe Quotes
#Being Different Quotes
#Venture Quotes
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“If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#People Quotes
#Majority Quotes
#Groups Quotes
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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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Freedom Quotes
#People Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
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“I may be no better, but at least I am different.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Different Quotes
#May Quotes
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“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Life Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“A feeble body weakens the mind.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Mind Quotes
#Body Quotes
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“The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Sweet Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
#Animal Quotes
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Art Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
#Reality Quotes
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“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source : Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)
#Inspirational Quotes
#Motivational Quotes
#Freedom Quotes
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“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Freedom Quotes
#Political Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
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“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#People Quotes
#Wigs Quotes
#Bread Quotes
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“Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Justice Quotes
#Judging Quotes
#Social Justice Quotes
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“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Simple Quotes
#Vanity Quotes
#Vain Quotes
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“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Philosophical Quotes
#Opposites Quotes
#Risk Quotes
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“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Real Quotes
#Passion Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Children Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Evil Quotes
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“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Gratitude Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
#Inspirational Christmas Quotes
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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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Life Quotes
#Faith Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
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“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Motivational Quotes
#Trust Quotes
#Nature Quotes
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“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Hate Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Truth Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
#Infinity Quotes
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“God made me and broke the mold.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Mold Quotes
#Broke Quotes
#Made Quotes
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“Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Religious Quotes
#Believer Quotes
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“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.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Causes Quotes
#Body Quotes
#Politics Quotes
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“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик
#Innocence Quotes
#Guilty Quotes
#Ashamed Quotes
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“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Men Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Physicians Quotes
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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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Heart Quotes
#Power Quotes
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“Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Misfortunes Quotes
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“I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Hate Quotes
#Book Quotes
#People Quotes
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“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Melting Quotes
#Delirium Quotes
#Ecstasy Quotes
