Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins...

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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...

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned...

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned...

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator....

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator....

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.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given...

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given...

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.

War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and...

War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and...

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and...

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and...

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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

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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...