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“It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Download Open image

“It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.”

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in…

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those…

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“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover,…

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