A man who, at the age of five-and-twenty, knows nothing and wishes to learn everything, is bound to make the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

A man who, at the age of five-and-twenty, knows nothing and wishes to learn everything, is bound to make the best use of his time. Not knowing at what point destiny or death might arrest my zeal, I desired, in any case, to get an idea of everything, in order to discover the special bent of my natural abilities, and also to judge for myself what was worthy of cultivation.

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