Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 7

• God made me and broke the mold.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mold, Broke, Made

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• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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  Philosophical, Hero, Long

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• Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

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  Twins, Anticipation, Born

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• The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Taste, Splendor

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

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  Death, Fear, Lying

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• Even knaves may be made good for something.

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  Knavery, May, Knaves

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• Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

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  Naturaleza, Carácter, Hombres

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• Existe un libro que, para mi gusto, proporciona el más feliz tratado de educación natural. ¿Cuál es, pues, este maravilloso libro? ¿Es Aristotle? ¿Es Plinio, es Buffon? No, es Robinson Crusoe.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educación, Libro, Buffon

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• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

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  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Mad

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

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  Cat, Smell, Watches

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• Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

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  Order, Soul, Doubt

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• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

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  Heart, Past, Joy

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• A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

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  Women, Men, Please

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

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  Men, Way, Half

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• There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

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  Hecho

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alan Ritter, Julia Conaway Bondanella (1988). “Rousseau's political writings: new translations, interpretive notes, backgrounds, commentaries”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

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  Truth, Eye, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With The Reveries of the Solitary Walker”

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• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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  Philosophical, Opposites, Risk

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• Quien se ruboriza ya es culpable; la verdadera inocencia no se avergüenza de nada.

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  Innocence, Guilty, Ashamed

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

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• She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

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  Shoes, Ties, Unattractive

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• It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

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  Support, World, Conquer

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• ...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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  Citizens, Riches, Enough

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• La paciencia es amarga, pero su fruto es dulce.

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  Patience, Sweet, Fruit

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• Nunca podemos ponernos en el lugar de los niños; no podemos comprender sus pensamientos, les prestamos los nuestros; y siempre siguiendo nuestro propio razonamiento, les llenamos la cabeza de extravagancias y errores.

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  Educación, Niños, Errores

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• Sacrifice life to truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Sacrifice

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