I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..

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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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Nous voyons, même de nos jours, que les gouvernements qui se conduisent le mieux sont ceux dont on parle le moins. Nous ne savons donc que le mal ; à peine le bien fait-il époque. Il n'y a que les méchants de célèbres, les bons sont oubliés ou tournés en ridicule : et voilà comment l'histoire, ainsi que la philosophie, calomnie sans cesse le genre humain.

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