QUOTES by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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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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"The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance."
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"Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies."
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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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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
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"As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor."
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"Gasoline consumption over the past 4 weeks has been 2.4 percent above prior-year levels, on average, suggesting momentum continues to build ahead of the summer driving seasons."
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"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society"
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"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
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"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"
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"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."
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"The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."
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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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"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it."
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"At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know that other being also suffer; seeing without feeling is not knowledge"
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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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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
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"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."
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"Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made."
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"Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse."
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"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
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"Most people believe that the longer you let these things go, the more likely you are to have something go wrong."
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
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"Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself"
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