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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sad, Death, Silence

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge, Men, Silence
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.208

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Taken, People, Silence
"The Social Contract & Discourses".

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