Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Biography: Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe (1756)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1770, published 1782)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1770, published 1782)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1770, published 1782)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: Well, let them eat cake.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1770, published 1782)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Of Frederick the Great - Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1770, published 1782)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Cities are the abyss of the human species.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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