"Teach him to live rather than to avoid……" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"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 part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young."

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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