Rousseau

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    Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    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.
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    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 (1712–1778)