“It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.”
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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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“It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.”
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“Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.”
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“Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”
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“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
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“It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.”
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“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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“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
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“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”
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“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
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“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced a...”
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“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
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“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.”
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“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.”
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“Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.”
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“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.”
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
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“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.”
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
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“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”
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“God made me and broke the mold.”
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