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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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UNKNOWN Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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