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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes about life

French Philosopher, Writer June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, everypart of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Lifeconsists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is naileddown in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by ourinstitutions. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Every person has a right to risk their own life for the..."
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and..."
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Every man has a right to risk his own life for the..."
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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