Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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- O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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- Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
- No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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