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" We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. "
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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" When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. "
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" Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. "
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" God made me and broke the mold. "
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Mold
Broke
" I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. "
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Talk
" Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? "
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" How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? "
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Long
Lived
" Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. "
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Heard
Knowledge
" Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. "
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Affections
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" Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. "
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Our
Always
" The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. "
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Training
Time
Know
" It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. "
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Does
" Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. "
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" Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. "
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" Base souls have no faith in great individuals. "
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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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" Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. "
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Always
Combat
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First Step
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