“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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