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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pity
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Children
Taste
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Affliction
Defeat
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Adversity
Consciousness
Prosperity
Remorse
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Forget
Land
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
People
Liberty
May
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
English
Pride
Vanity
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Plants
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge
Being
Desire
Pleasure
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Time
Children
Order
Profession
Training
Waste
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Money
First
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Man
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
People
Nations
Youth
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Nature
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Will