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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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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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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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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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