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# Rousseau

 **3** quotes in **7** categories

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.

##  Quotes by Rousseau

> [“Though it may be the peculiar happiness of Socrates and other geniuses of his stamp, to reason themselves into virtue, the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rousseau/though-it-may-be-the-peculiar-happiness-of-socrates-and-other/)

[Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rousseau/)

[Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b90/rousseau-55321_character_though-it-may-be-the-peculiar-happiness_901215.jpg)

> [“When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rousseau/when-i-stay-in-one-place-i-can-hardly-think-at-all-my-body-had-to-be/)

[ROUSSEAU](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rousseau/)

[Creativity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creativity/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/342/rousseau-55321_creativity_when-i-stay-in-one-place-i-can-hardly-th_1738923.jpg)

> [“The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages" Pt.1, 41”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rousseau/the-imagination-which-causes-so-many-ravages-among-us-never-speaks-to/)

[Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rousseau/)

[Imagination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagination/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/rousseau-55321_imagination_the-imagination-which-causes-so-many-rav_2718690.jpg)

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