I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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 have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

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

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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...

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life;...

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life;...

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and...

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and...

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

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

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

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

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

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and...

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and...

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...

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all...

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all...

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.

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....

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own:...

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own:...

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...