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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Confession
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Heart
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Slavery
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Risk
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
Doctors
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Freedom
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Coward and Cowardice
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Integrity
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Happiness
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
Children
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Promises
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Sympathy
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Motivation
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Quotations
Joseph Roux

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Experience
Joseph Roux

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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Emotions
Joseph Roux

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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Philosophers and Philosophy
Joseph Roux

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Poetry and Poets
Joseph Roux

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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Patience
Joseph Roux

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Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
Guilt
Nicholas Rowe

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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Bachelor
Helen Rowland

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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Husbands
Helen Rowland

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Love
Helen Rowland

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun