The best Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The best Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.

To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.
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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."
Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.
Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2
Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.
Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.
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Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."
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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5
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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
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No letter that could be sent deserves to go undelivered.
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By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone.
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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?
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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
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One original thought is worth 1000 meaningless quotes.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
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This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
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People learn to love their chains.
Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10
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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
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The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.
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Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."
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Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
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That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.
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Don't ever let a recipe tell you how much garlic to put in. You measure that with your heart.
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Do I look like someone who cooks? I can open a can of Coke Light, that's it.
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You don't build a great castle just all at once.
Castle: "Do I look like a killer to you?"
Beckett: "Yes. You kill my patience."
...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
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I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.
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Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.
After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.
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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."
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