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Famous Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“The general will is always right.”
“Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.”
“The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.”
“There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.”
“That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.”
“The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.”
“I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.”
“To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.”
“There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.”
“Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?”
“The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.”
“Social man lives constantly outside himself.”