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Other Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
- I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
- At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
- Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less…
- As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some…
- Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is…
- The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a…
- Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be…
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