"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"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."
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
-John Ruskin
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."
-David Hilbert
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