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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Quotes
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
- → What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
- → Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
- → No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
- → I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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Pick the quote attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- → Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
- → People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
- → Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- → The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Select the quotation attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- → The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
- → The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
- → It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
- → Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
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One of these may be attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Which one?
- → The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- → An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
- → Life decreases in direct proportion to the force of desire.
- → An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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Which one of these belongs to Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
- → We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
- → Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- → One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
- → You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
- → The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
- → Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
- → No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
- → I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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