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Children Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
- A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually…
- Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is…
- Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
- Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
- We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
- I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
- To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
- The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
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- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
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- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon