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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Free peoples, remember this maxim: We can acquire freedom, but once it is lost, it is never regained.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Take the love for beauty out of your hearts, and you will have taken all the charm out of life.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Fears, suspicions, coldness, reserve, hatred, betrayal, are often hidden beneath that uniform and treacherous veil of courtesy.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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A honest man will never find a better friend than his wife.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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If there were a nation of gods, they would govern themselves democratically; but such a perfect government is not suitable for men.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Work constitutes an indispensable duty for the social man. Rich or poor, powerful or weak, every idle citizen is a thief.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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If reason makes the man, feeling guides him.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The soul withstands sharp pains much better than prolonged sadness.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The kind of happiness I need is less doing what I want than not doing what I don't want.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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A good father is worth a hundred teachers.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I know no greater enemy of man than he who is a friend to everyone.