Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on...

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on...

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

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

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species

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:...

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...

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible...

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible...

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...

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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...

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.

Money is the seed of money.

Money is the seed of money.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

God made me and broke the mold.

God made me and broke the mold.