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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau