Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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My liveliest delight is in having conquered myself.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart but women will read the heart of man better than they.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Men and nations can only be reformed in their youth they become incorrigible as they grow old.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Nature never deceives us it is always we who deceive ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me' the State may be given up for lost
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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