Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
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More Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
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More on Thinking
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
