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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Popular Quotes

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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