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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

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A feeble body weakens the mind.

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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

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Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

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

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 28th, 1712

Died: July 2nd, 1778

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