People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

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...

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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

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

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...

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

God made me and broke the mold.

God made me and broke the mold.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind;...

True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind;...

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these...

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these...

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 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.

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 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.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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