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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Moreover Rousseau advocated the opinion that insofar as they lead people to virtue all religions are equally worthy and that people should therefore conform to the religion in which they have been brought up. Following the French Revolution other commentators fingered a potential danger of Rousseau’s project of realizing an “antique” conception of virtue amongst the citizenry in a modern world (e. Although in this state he deprives himself of some advantages which he got from nature he gains in return others so great his faculties are so stimulated and developed his ideas so extended his feelings so ennobled and his whole soul so uplifted that did not the abuses of this new condition often degrade him below that which he left he would be bound to bless continually the happy moment which took him from it for ever and instead of a stupid and unimaginative animal made him an intelligent being and a man.

Rousseau's novel Émile: or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—his Confessions which initiated the modern autobiography and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker—exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing.

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