He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

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

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the...

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the...

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.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it....

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it....

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely...

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely...

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for...

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

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

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

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.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as...

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as...

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.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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 English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members...

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members...

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.