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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A feeble body weakens the mind.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Emile: Or, On Education (1762)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (The Reveries of the Solitary Walker) (1776-1778)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Emile: Or, On Education (1762), Book IV
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: Du contrat social (The Social Contract), Book III. Ch. XII
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right (Du contrat social), 1762, Book II, Ch. 5 - The Right of Life and Death
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes: The Essential Writings of Rousseau (2013 edition), Modern Library - ISBN: 9780679645399
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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