“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
― Emile, or On Education
― Emile, or On Education
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