Jean-jacques Rousseau
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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
God made me and broke the mold.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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The good is the beautiful.
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
Poetry is a freedom of choice and economy of voice.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
If indeed there's life after death, I sure will still be a poet.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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