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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French
Philosopher
Born:
Jun 28
,
1712
Died:
Jul 2
,
1778
Life
Man
Only
People
Will
You
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience
Fruit
Sweet
Bitter
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reality
World
Imagination
Boundless
Limits
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Death
Silence
Sadness
Absolute
Leads
Image
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Argument
Those
Wrong
Employed
Insults
Who
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature
Ourselves
Never
Deceive
Deceives
Us
Who
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People
Liberty
Remember
Free
Lost
Once
Free People
Recovered
Never
Maxim
May
Acquire
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life
Man
Fire
Own
Every
Suicide
Guilty
Out
Window
Risk
Throws
Himself
Said
Been
His
Escape
Order
Who
Ever
Right
Every Man
Preserve
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Great
People
Brainy
Men
Say
Know
Talkers
While
Little
Much
Who
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Alone
You
Gardening
Plant
Plants
Weed
Spouse
Your
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness
Good
Digestion
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Cook
Good Cook
Good Digestion
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heroes
Cowards
Carriage
Generally
Known
Greatest
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Living
Difficult
Think
Too
Earning
Only
Nobly
Thinks
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Election
Free
Think
Members
Only
Parliament
English
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Religious
Rascals
Believers
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thankful
Gratitude
Duty
Ought
None
Expect
Which
Paid
Right
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thought
Too
Having
Misfortunes
Come
Well
Fellows
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Will
First
Ought
He
Know
Most
Learn
First Thing
Child
The First Thing
Endure
Which
Thing
Need
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophers
Shared
Does
Exist
Exists
Deny
Mania
Explain
Ages
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Childhood
Reason
Sleep
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You
Affliction
Defeat
Something
Happens
Either
God made me and broke the mold.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God
Me
Made
Broke
Mold
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faith
Great
Individuals
Souls
Base
I only see clearly what I remember.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remember
See
Only
Clearly
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Good
Bad
Know
Really
Fortune
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