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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher, writer, and composer, considered one of the most important figures of the Enlightenment. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent literature, political, and social theories.

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“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.”

Knows World Wells Two States Moments Body Change This World Taste Affection Purity Misfortunes Perpetual Tangled Flux Yarn

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“Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]”

World Success Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing

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“The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.”

World May Book Reading Women Observation

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“The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]”

World Book Femme

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“Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.”

World Should Looks Soul Order Causes Doubt This World Harmony Proof Cease Oppression This Life Triumph Immortality Wicked Shocking After Death Discord

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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

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“It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.”

World Enough Support Easier Fingers Shoulders Conquer Social Contract

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“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”

World Madness Sane Madmen

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“Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man”

Men World Hands Makers Degenerates

Book:Emile: selections

Source: Emile: selections

“If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?”

People Ifs World Believe Wells Known This World Accounts Proof Vampire Officials Reports Priests Lacking Well Known Surgeons Judicial Magistrates

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“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”

“I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.”

Ifs World Should Made Earth Faces Found Saws Crime Horror Should Have Shame Punishment Liars Thieves Confession Abyss Disgrace Invincible

Book:The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.”

People World Long Wealth Poor Rich Rich People

Book:The Social Contract: & Discourses

Source: The Social Contract: & Discourses

“I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.”

World Suffering Too Much This World World Suffering

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“Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.”

World Pleasure Mom Husband Glory Dignity Esteem Being A Mom

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“But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.”

People World Soul Citizens Barriers Imaginary Great Souls

Book:Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Source: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

About the Author

Born: June 28, 1712
Died: July 2, 1778
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 452

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