Cuando un padre engendra y mantiene a sus hijos, no hace más que la tercera parte de su misión. Debe a su especie hombres; debe a la sociedad hombres… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Cuando un padre engendra y mantiene a sus hijos, no hace más que la tercera parte de su misión. Debe a su especie hombres; debe a la sociedad hombres sociables, y debe ciudadanos al Estado.
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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Rousseau
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J.J. Rousseau
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JJ Rousseau
Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their colour, their breathing, their timid manner, their slight resistance, that is the language nature gave them for your answer. The lips always say 'No,' and rightly so; but the tone is not always the same, and that cannot lie. Has not a woman the same needs as a man, but without the same right to make them known? Her fate would be too cruel if she had no language in which to express her legitimate desires except the words which she dare not utter.
"Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'
("Queen Fantasque")
He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.
