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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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...

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species

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...

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.

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...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Childhood is the sleep of reason.C

Childhood is the sleep of reason.C

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...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

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

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

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and...

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and...

Get money first; virtue comes later.

Get money first; virtue comes later.

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...