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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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ANNIE WIMBISH He should confine himself to subjects he knows something about.
TED SASKIN He who knows #himself #knows #ALLAH.
ALI R.A Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world h...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself
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LAO-TSE He who knows himself is enlightened.
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JOHN UPDIKE He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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LAO TZU He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
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ABE BADMUS He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows no...
PROVERB There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment ...
MARCELENE COX He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
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OLIVER SACKS She barely knows him.
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ARAB PROVERB He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows ...
PERSIAN PROVERB He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
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SUNDAY ADELAJA Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
BLAISE PASCAL He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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He who know himself is enlightened.
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SHAFTESBURY He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived
LEGAL MAXIM Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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