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

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

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

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time...

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time...

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

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....

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.

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

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

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...

God made me and broke the mold.

God made me and broke the mold.

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.

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...

I only see clearly what I remember.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

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...

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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...

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

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