"Childhood is the sleep of reason."
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"At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us."
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"To live is not breathing it is action."
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"All that time is lost which might be better employed."
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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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"What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political."
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"An honest man nearly always thinks justly."
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"The truth brings no man a fortune."
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
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"Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]"
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"Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health."
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"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."
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"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
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"The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it."
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"The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt."
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"We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves."
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"It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command."
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"The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived."
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"Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs."
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"Posterity is always just."
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