"A man who is not a fool can……" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity."
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286 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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- If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
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- Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong…
- Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
- The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has…
- Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open…
- I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
- Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
- A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
- Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
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