All of my misfortunes come from having.. Jean Jacques Rousseau

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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Swiss

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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

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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.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

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