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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712-1778. Franco-Swiss philosopher and political thinker.

1. "We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."

categories: Education

2. "We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

categories: Education

3. "Truth is no road to fortune."

categories: Richness and Money -:- Truth and Falsity

4. "True democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed."

categories: Politics and Diplomacy

5. "To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written."

categories: Love

6. "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

categories: Reality and Imagination

7. "The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Happiness

8. "The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."

categories: History and Nations

9. "The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."

categories: History and Nations

10. "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

11. "Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

categories: Nature and Animals

12. "Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."

categories: Richness and Money

13. "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human

14. "Living is not breathing but doing."

categories: Life and Death

15. "Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself."

categories: Freedom and Servitude

16. "It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."

source: "The New Eloise"

categories: Science and Technology

17. "If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a God."

categories: Life and Death

18. "I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Peace and War

19. "I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

source: "Emile, or Education"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

20. "He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

categories: Manners and Ethics

21. "Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."

categories: Happiness

22. "Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

categories: Manners and Ethics

23. "Good is only beauty put into practice."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- God and Religion

24. "General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human

25. "Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."

categories: Success and Fame

26. "Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

categories: Truth and Falsity

27. "Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."

categories: Law and Crime

28. "Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body."

categories: Sin and Conscience

29. "Cities are the abyss of the human species."

categories: Pain and Tears -:- Various

30. "Childhood is the sleep of reason."

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Youth and Age

31. "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Oration and Silence

32. "A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Woman and Man

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