Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

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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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Liberty consists less in doing one's will than in not being subject to that of another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Letters Written from the Mountain (1764)
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Emile, or On Education, Book I (1762)
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

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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.

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