Por más que este hombre sujete a la mitad del mundo, nunca pasa de ser un particular; su interés, separado del de los demás, siempre es un interés pr… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Por más que este hombre sujete a la mitad del mundo, nunca pasa de ser un particular; su interés, separado del de los demás, siempre es un interés privado. Si llega a perecer, su imperio queda después de su muerte diseminado y sin vínculo que lo conserve, a la manera en que una encina se deshace y se reduce a un montón de cenizas después que el fuego la ha consumido.

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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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Alternative Names: Citizen of Geneva Jean Jacques Rousseau J. J. Rousseau Rousseau J.J. Rousseau JJ Rousseau

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To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.

In fact, the real source of all thosedifferences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas thecitizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in theopinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely fromtheir judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.

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Les gens qui passent exactement la vie entière à travailler pour vivre n'ont d'autre idée que celle de leur travail ou de leur intérêt, et tout leur esprit semble être au bout de leurs bras.

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