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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?

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Julie, or The New Heloise (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560

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