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Less Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the…
- Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
- Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less…
- The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
- Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
- Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every…
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