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Jean Jacques Rousseau

About Author: French political philosopher (1712 - 1778)

Quotes:

  • Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

  • The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

  • Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

  • Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

  • God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

  • As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

  • The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

  • He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

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