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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

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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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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 28th, 1712

Died: July 2nd, 1778

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