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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas on the social contract, human goodness, and education transformed modern politics and inspired the Romantic movement.

Frases de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
    Filosófico
  • Nature made man happy and good, but society depraves him and makes him miserable.
    Crítica social
  • The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
    Crítica social
  • To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act, it is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties.
    Reflexão existencial
  • Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
    Motivacional
  • It takes a lot of knowledge to know how to ask for what one does not know.
    Epistemológico
  • The only moral lesson suited to childhood, and the most important at any age, is never to do harm to anyone.
    Educacional
  • Cities are the abyss of the human species.
    Crítica social
  • Liberty is a food that is good to taste, but hard to digest.
    Filosófico-Político
  • Conscience is the voice of the soul; passions are the voice of the body.
    Reflexão

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