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Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to comb

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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