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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.


Jean Jacques Rousseau

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PATRICK ROTHFUSS Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
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RUDOLPH DELSON However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
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SUSAN CARTWRIGHT All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...
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MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
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HANNA ROSIN Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S. LEWIS Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
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JOSEPH ADDISON How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
EDWARD COKE The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natura...
LYSANDER SPOONER The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by sma...
DAVID FRIEDMAN The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by ...
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FRANCIS BACON Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increas...
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DEBORAH KASS It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know....
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ANNET KURUI To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
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MURRAY ROTHBARD Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
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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