People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
pain person pleasure miserable
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
rights liberty man nature humanity morality surrender renunciation
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
age truth soul language feeling
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.
man lost affairs matter state
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
happiness good
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
appearance age times
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
imagination reality world limits
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
learn child thing
people men great
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
action live existence living feeling senses act give breathe
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
time moment cats quiet cat made
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
sleep reason childhood
True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes
life mind christianity true christians eyes made short
Cities are the abyss of the human species
human abyss cities
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
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