"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."

"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains."

"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

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"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."