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Jean Jacques Rousseau

1712 AD — 1778 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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01Undated

Life is burdensome to us chiefly from the abuse of it.

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02Undated

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it.

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03Undated

Our affections, as well as our bodies, are in perpetual flux.

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04Undated

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

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05Undated

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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06Undated

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard, and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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07Undated

Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man.

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08Undated

The being whose strength exceeds its necessities is strong; the being whose necessities exceed its strength is feeble.

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09Undated

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

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10Undated

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

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11Undated

The way in which we form our ideas gives character to our minds.

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12Undated

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other; for it is from their difference alone that all the evils arise which render us really unhappy.

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13Undated

There is a period of life when our backward movements are steps in advance.

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14Undated

To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.

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15Undated

To live is not to breathe; it is to act.

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16Undated

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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17Undated

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

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18Undated

We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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19Undated

We ought not to teach children the sciences, but to give them a taste for them.

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20Undated

Woman's dignity lies in her being unknown; her glory, in the esteem of her husband; and her pleasure, in the welfare of her family.

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21Undated

Base souls have no faith in great men.

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22Undated

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

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23Undated

There is no true action without will.

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24Undated

A man who means to keep his promises can't afford to make many.

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