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Death Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

15 Death quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean‑Jacques Rousseau’s fifteen thoughts on mortality blend his naturalistic philosophy with personal reflection, providing a nuanced view of death as part of human experience. The language feels earnest, inviting readers to contemplate the end within the larger social fabric.

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

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“Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!”

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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

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“To live free and to have little to do with human affairs is the best way of learning how to die.”

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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those…

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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of…

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the…

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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against…

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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just…

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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of…

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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…

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“He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of…

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Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to…

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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,…

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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you…

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

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

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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

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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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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions…

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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I…

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“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -…

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