Tag: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau