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Famous Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“Le plus lent à promettre est toujours le plus fidèle à tenir.”
“To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.”
“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”
“Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.”
“For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.”
“We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.”
“The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.”
“The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.”
“All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.”
“We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.”
“Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.”
