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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes: Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
         

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.


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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.



People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?



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Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.



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