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“ ”Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.
About Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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Suffer, die, or get better; but whatever you do, live while you are alive.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
Non, il n'y a point de jouissances pareilles à celles que peut donner une honnête femme qu'on aime ; tout est faveur auprès d'elle.