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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• Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

  Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

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  We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

  Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

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