Author of quotes: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Page 4



Nature wants children to be children before being adults. If we want to change this, we will produce precocious fruits which will have no maturity, no taste and will not be slow to deteriorate. The child has a special ability to see, think and feel; there is nothing more foolish than trying to substitute their this skill is ours. Let childhood ripen in children.
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Books only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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A person is very strong when he wants to be only what it is, and very weak when he wants to rise above humanity.
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Happiness is a good Bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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The probability that the power will be people who do not like authority, such as the appointment of a bleeding heart overseer of slaves on the plantation.
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To pretend to be indifferent when she is at the mercy of the passions; to seem cheerful and happy, when you're the victim of a thousand afflictions; combine the external with the peace calm the storm; never to say what you think to hide all that I feel; to pretend for the sake of duty and to lie out of modesty, what girls my age.
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Animals are part of natural law, they have their rights because they are rational.
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True politeness is the benevolent attitude towards people.
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Boring lessons are fit only to inspire hatred and to those who teach, and all taught.
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To live is not to breathe, it is to act. Not the person most have lived, which can count more years, and the one who most felt life.
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We cause ourselves more suffering, treating our diseases than transferring them.
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Well what is not.
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Gratitude - duty to be paid, but which no one has the right to expect.
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Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter lips forever, and the soul always the world?
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We fall below the animals when talking to say nothing.
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