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Emile

: Or On Education

Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile, Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hail

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (4)

“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.'”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com

Tagged: Moral Lesson, Advice, Growing Up, Life

“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com

Tagged: Teach, Knowledge, Persuasion

“To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com

Tagged: Living, Life, actions, Time

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com

Tagged: Paradox, Prejudice, character