إني أتحمل بسهولة البلايا التي أصبت بها , لا تلك التي أخشى وقوعها , لأن مخيلتي المنفرة تنظمها وتبحثها وتزيدها , وأرتقاب البلايا يحز في نفسي أكثر من وق… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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إني أتحمل بسهولة البلايا التي أصبت بها , لا تلك التي أخشى وقوعها , لأن مخيلتي المنفرة تنظمها وتبحثها وتزيدها , وأرتقاب البلايا يحز في نفسي أكثر من وقوعها
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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J.J. Rousseau
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JJ Rousseau
In instinct alone, man had everything he needed in order to live in the state of nature; in a cultivated reason, he has only what he needs to live in society.
My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all the knowledge the book presupposed. I was very far indeed from imagining that often the author did not possess it himself, but had extracted it from other books, as and when he needed it. This foolish conviction forced me to stop every moment, and to rush incessantly from one book to another; sometimes before coming to the tenth page of the one I was trying to read I should, by this extravagant method, have had to run through whole libraries. Nevertheless I stuck to it so persistently that I wasted infinite time, and my head became so confused that I could hardly see or take in anything.
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As a result of quarrels, blows, furtive and poorly chosen readings, my disposition became taciturn, wild, my head began to be spoiled, and I lived like a true werewolf.
