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

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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...

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...

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...

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...

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes...

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes...

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.

What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness?

What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness?

A man is a God in ruins.

A man is a God in ruins.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We...

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We...

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.