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Emile, or On Education

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God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762), translated by Barbara Foxley (1911), Book I

Plants are fashioned by cultivation, man by education.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762), translated by Barbara Foxley (1911), Book I

Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762), translated by Barbara Foxley (1911), Book I

Childhood has its own ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762), translated by Barbara Foxley (1911), Book II

What is this wonderful book? Is it Aristotle? Pliny? Buffon? No; it is Robinson Crusoe.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762), translated by Barbara Foxley (1911), Book III

Then farewell Paris, far-famed Paris, with all your noise and smoke and dirt, where the women have ceased to believe in honour and the men in virtue.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762), translated by Barbara Foxley (1911), Book IV

When this principle is admitted, it follows that woman is specially made for man's delight.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762), translated by Barbara Foxley (1911), Book V

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