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Vote: | Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. |
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Vote: | All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. |
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Vote: | Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. |
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Vote: | Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. |
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Vote: | Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. |
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Vote: | Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. |
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Vote: | Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. |
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Vote: | Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. |
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Vote: | Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. |
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Vote: | Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. |
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Vote: | How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? |
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Vote: | Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. |
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Vote: | We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment.
Biography of Rousseau
Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in Ermenonville (28 miles northeast of Paris). His mother, Suzanne Bernard Rousseau, died a week after his birth, and his father Isaac abandoned him in 1722. His childhood education consisted solely of reading Plutarch's Lives and Calvinist sermons.
Rousseau left Geneva on March 14, 1728, after several years of apprenticeship to a notary and then an engraver. He lived with and was supported by Françoise-Louise de Warens, a French Catholic woman. Although she was twelve years older than him and married, they became lovers, and Rousseau converted to Catholicism. In 1742 he moved to Paris in order to present the Académie des Sciences with a new system of musical notation he had invented, which was rejected as useless and unoriginal. While in Paris, he became friends with Diderot and contributed several articles to his Encyclopédie, including an important article on political economy. He also befriended and lived with Thérèse Lavasseur, an illiterate seamstress who bore him five children. As a result of his theories on education and child-rearing, Rousseau has often been criticized by Voltaire and modern commentators for putting his children in an orphanage as soon as they were weaned. In his defense, Rousseau explained that he would have been a poor father, and that the children would have a better life at the foundling home.
After gaining some fame with his "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" in 1750, Rousseau had a series of fallings-out with his friends and associates in Paris. In 1754, Rousseau returned to Geneva, where he reconverted to Calvinism, but he soon left for Montmorency in 1757. While there he wrote the romantic novel Nouvelle Heloise (The New Heloise) and Emile, or Education. This book criticized religion, causing it to be burned in France. Rousseau was forced to flee the increasingly hostile French government. Geneva had exiled him, so he made a brief stay in Bern. In January of 1766, he took refuge with the philosopher David Hume in Great Britain, but after 18 months he left because he believed Hume was plotting against him(http://www.connect.net/ron/davidhume.html).
Rousseau returned to France under the name "Renou," although officially he was not allowed back in until 1770. As a condition of his return, he was not allowed to publish any books, but after completing his Confessions, Rousseau began private readings. In 1771 he was forced to stop this, and the book was not published until after his death in 1782. Rousseau continued to write, producing works such as Reveries of the Solitary Walker, and in order to support himself he returned to copying music. Because of his partially-justified paranoia, he did not seek attention or the company of others. While taking a morning walk on the estate of the Marquis de Giradin at Ermenonville, Rousseau suffered a hemorrhage and died on July 2, 1778.
Rousseau was interred in The Panthéon in Paris in 1794, sixteen years after his death. The tomb was designed to resemble a rustic temple, to recall Rousseau's theories of nature.
In 1834, the Genevan government reluctantly erected a statue in his honor on the tiny Ile Rousseau in Lake Geneva. In 2002, the Espace Rousseau was established at 40 Grand-Rue, Geneva, Rousseau's birthplace.
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