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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer.
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- L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.
- Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s'avisa de dire: Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile. Que de crimes, de guerres, de meurtres, que de misères et d'horreurs n'eût point épargnés au genre humain celui qui, arrachant les pieux ou comblant le fossé, eût crié à ses semblables: Gardez-vous d'écouter cet imposteur; vous êtes perdus, si vous oubliez que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n'est à personne.
- 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. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
- A Dissertation On the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind, Second Part
- Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dégénère entre les mains de l'homme.
- Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things, everything degenerates in the hands of man.
- Emile, Book I, Chapter I
- L'accent est l'âme du discours.
- Source: Émile. Book I. (1762)
- Translation: Accent is the soul of language.
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- Finally, I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake" [qu'ils mangent de la brioche].
- This contains a statement usually attributed to Marie Antoinette , this was written in 1766, when Marie Antoinette was 10 and still 4 years away from her marriage to Louis XVI of France .
- Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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