“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”
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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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“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”
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“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
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“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”
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“I only see clearly what I remember.”
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“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
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“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”
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“Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”
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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.”
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“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”
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“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”
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“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
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“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
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“The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.”
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“To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.”
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“I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.”
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“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.”
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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 from a fire is guilty of suicide?”
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“Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.”
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“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.”
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