“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
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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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“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
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“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
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“A feeble body weakens the mind.”
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“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
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“All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.”
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“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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“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
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“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
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“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
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“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.”
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“Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.”
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“I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.”
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“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.”
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“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.”
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“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.”
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“We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.”
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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
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