I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake". - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".
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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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Citizen of Geneva
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J. J. Rousseau
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JJ Rousseau
It was requisite for men to be thought what they really were not. To be and to appear became two very different things, and from this distinction sprang pomp and knavery, and all the vices which form their train.
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.
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