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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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God made me and broke the mold.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.


— 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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