"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."
-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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"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."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding."
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"I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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