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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Citizen of Geneva
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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J. J. Rousseau
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With regard to equality, this word must not be understood to mean that degress of power and wealth should be exactly the same, but rather that with regard to power, it should be incapable of all violence and never exerted except by virtue of status and the laws; and with regard to wealth, no citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he is constrained to sell himself.
Todo hombre puede grabar tablas de piedra, o comprar un oráculo, o fingir un comercio secreto con alguna divinidad, o amaestrar un pájaro para hablarle al oído, o encontrar medios groseros para imponer aquéllas a un pueblo. El que no sepa más que esto, podrá hasta reunir un ejército de insensatos; pero nunca fundará un imperio, y su extravagante obra perecerá enseguida con él. Vanos prestigios forman un vínculo pasajero; sólo la sapiencia puede hacerlo duradero.
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My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my impetuosity. I no longer know moderation, respect, fear, propriety; I am cynical, brazen, violent, fearless; no sense of shame deters me, no danger alarms me. Except for the object of my passion, the whole world is as nothing to me; but this only lasts for a moment, and the next I am plunged into utter dejection.
