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| Jean Jacques Rousseau
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. 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. The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? |
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