Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Topics: Labor Quotes, Moderation Quotes

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:...

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...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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....

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given...

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given...

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...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you...

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you...