General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity...

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and...

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and...

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which...

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which...

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years...

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years...

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the...

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what...

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you...

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you...