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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Swiss

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

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

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

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

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

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