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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.
Money is the source of all the false ideas of society.
A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Emile (1762)
Every law the people has not ratified in person is null and void - is, in fact, not a law.
There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
In human society man is the chief tool of man.
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe (1756)
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
The Social Contract (1762)
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
Men are depraved and perverted by society.
Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it.
Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.
Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society.
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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