In giving too much weight to prudence one doesn’t make enough allowance for the possibility of good luck. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In giving too much weight to prudence one doesn’t make enough allowance for the possibility of good luck.

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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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Can sıkıcı bir budalalığı betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklarına din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuğu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öğrendiği din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlatırken, söylediklerini açıklamak zorunda bırakırdım.

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Self-esteem is the strongest incentive to elevated souls: self-pride, fertile in illusions, often disguises itself, and is mistaken for the former; but when once the fraud is discovered, the danger ceases; for though it is difficult to eradicate it entirely, it may easily be kept in subjection.

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