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" Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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" I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. "
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" Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. "
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" You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. "
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" Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. "
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" A feeble body weakens the mind. "
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" Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. "
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" Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. "
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" People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. "
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" To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. "
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" Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. "
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" I only see clearly what I remember. "
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" The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. "
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" We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. "
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" Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. "
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" Childhood is the sleep of reason. "
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" Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. "
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" Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. "
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" Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. "
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" We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. "
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" Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. "
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" Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. "
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" Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. "
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" Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. "
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" I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. "
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" It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. "
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" We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. "
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" No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. "
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