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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.“

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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"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."

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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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"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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"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."

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