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«Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Labor,
Moderation
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appetite, excess, indulging, physicians, prevents, sharpens, temperance
«I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
«A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.»
«You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.»
«The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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elected, election, election of, English people, enslaved, gravely, lose it, Member of Parliament, mistaken, parliament, parliaments
«War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and state; and individuals are enemies only accidentally: not as men, nor even as citizens: but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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War
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accidentally, as soldiers, defender, defenders, Enemy of the state, even as, The Defenders
«At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know that other being also suffer; seeing without feeling is not knowledge»
«Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves»
«I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.»
«We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced»
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