“I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. His novel, *Emile: or, On Education*, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great 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* were among the pre-eminent examples of the late 18th-century movement known as the "Age of Sensibility", featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age. Rousseau also made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
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“I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.”
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“There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.”
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“The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.”
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“I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.”
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“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.”
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“To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”
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“Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.”
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“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?”
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“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has...”
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“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, throu...”
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
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“Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't af...”
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“So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the...”
“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
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“Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the pro...”
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“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
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“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
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“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
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“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
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