132 ordspråk av Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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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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