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Alle Völker, die Gesittung hatten, haben die Frauen geachtet.
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Schriftsteller, Philosoph, Komponist, Musiktheoretiker, "Emile", "Nouvelle Heloise", "Contract social", "Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire", "Les Confessions" (Frankreich, 1712 - 1778).
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau wäre heute 311 Jahre, 9 Monate, 29 Tage oder 113.893 Tage alt.
Geboren am 28.06.1712 in Genf
Gestorben am 02.07.1778 in Ermenonville
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As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the state is not far from its fall.
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
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Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.
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Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.
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Everything is good when it leaves the Creator's hands; everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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Falsehood is susceptible of an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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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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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of the government.
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Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority; they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they do not understand.
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Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when they command.
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Laws are always useful to persons of property and hurtful to those who have none.
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
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Liberty is not in any form of government. It is in the heart of free man, he carries it with him everywhere.
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
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Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.