Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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...

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the...

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the...

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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...

One is only happy before he is happy

One is only happy before he is happy

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...

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

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

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no...

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no...

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...

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you...

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you...

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...

Money is the seed of money.

Money is the seed of money.

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:...

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

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

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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...

God made me and broke the mold.

God made me and broke the mold.

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....

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.