The worst education is to leave him floating between his wi… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The worst education is to leave him floating between his will and yours, and to dispute endlessly between you and him as to which of the two will be the master.

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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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It is in order not to become victim of an assassin that we consent to die if
we become assassins.

Dizer que um homem se dá gratuitamente é uma afirmação absurda e inconcebível; tal ato é ilegítimo e nulo, tão-somente porque aquele que o pratica não está de posse do seu bom-senso. Dizer a mesma coisa de todo um povo é supor uma nação de loucos e a loucura não cria direito.

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!

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