The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean Jacques Rousseau in Emile (1762)
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Jean Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract (1762)
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