“Cities are the abyss of the human species.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“I may not be better than other people, but at least I’m different.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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