"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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"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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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
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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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