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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Nature has made man happy and good, but society corrupts him and makes him miserable.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Vice rarely insinuated itself opposing honesty; it almost always takes on its disguise.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It is very difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to live.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The only habit that must be taught to children is not to submit to any.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest human errors.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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To renounce our freedom is to renounce our quality as human beings, and with it, all the duties of humanity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It is not easy to abandon virtue; it torments those who abandon it for a long time.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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There is a big difference between traveling to see countries and traveling to see towns.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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By refusing to accept an immutable higher power that surpasses us, we have filled the void with personal imperatives, and suddenly, our life has become eerie.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I'm not afraid to die 'one day', I'm afraid to die today.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Precipitation and shallowness are the chronic diseases of the century.