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Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes


Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.