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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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
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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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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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