"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

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"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."

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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

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"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."

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"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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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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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

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

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