Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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With children use force with men reason such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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