The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness?

What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness?

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...

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

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

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.

One is only happy before he is happy

One is only happy before he is happy

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

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...

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

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

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

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and...

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and...

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;...

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...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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...

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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....

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...

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.

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

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

God made me and broke the mold.

God made me and broke the mold.