Ma mémoire, qui me retrace uniquement les objets agréables, est l’heureux contrepoids de mon imagination effarouchée, qui ne me fait prévoir que de c… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Ma mémoire, qui me retrace uniquement les objets agréables, est l’heureux contrepoids de mon imagination effarouchée, qui ne me fait prévoir que de cruels avenirs.
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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Also Known As
Alternative Names:
Citizen of Geneva
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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J. J. Rousseau
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Rousseau
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J.J. Rousseau
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JJ Rousseau
The sophism that ruined me is the one made by the majority of men, who complain about lacking strength when it is already too late to make use of it. [...] Virtue costs us only through our own fault, and if we always wanted to be wise, we would rarely need to be virtuous. But inclinations that would be easy to overcome sweep us away without resistance: we give way to slight temptations whose danger we scorn
