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"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"
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"A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred."
"Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master."
"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."
"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."
"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
Explore more quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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