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Quotations by author » Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher and writer whose novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, 1712-1778
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Man was born free, but is everywhere in bondage.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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Money is the seed of money.
Money
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves
Nature
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
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One is only happy before he is happy
Happiness
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
Evil
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Knowledge
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity
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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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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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