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

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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...

A feeble body weakens the mind.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I only see clearly what I remember.

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.

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.

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

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.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make...

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make...

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves

God made me and broke the mold.

God made me and broke the mold.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally...

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally...

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....

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

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

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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...