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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Without them you are nothing.
Whatever you do will...
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"blindly" so to speak. C...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Remember to afford yourself
the same generosity
you give to others.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be generous with your
time and energy. The harder
it is to give, the more
the other p...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Recognise how much
you have to give.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Although happiness is a state
of being, it usually still requires
some doing if it is to b...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Commit to being happy and
make the choices that will
support your commitment.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be courageous in your
decision-making.
Stand by your choices
and never look back.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Don’t rely on the opinions of others.
Only you will know what is
right for you.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Unless you have the
courage to say ‘no’ to
the things you don’t want,
it’s ha...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI

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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Cities are the abyss of the human species
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
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 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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