The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. Votes: 13
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. Votes: 9
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. Votes: 6
Innocence is ashamed of nothing. Votes: 0
Childhood is the sleep of reason. Votes: 0
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime. Votes: 0
God made me and broke the mold. Votes: 0
The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it. Votes: 0
The truth brings no man a fortune. Votes: 0
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts~? Votes: 0
A feeble body weakens the mind. Votes: 0
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened. Votes: 0
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them. Votes: 0
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all? Votes: 0
Finance is a slave's word. Votes: 0
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts? Votes: 0
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. Votes: 0
A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them. Votes: 0
Every artists wants to be applauded Votes: 0
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time. Votes: 0
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. Votes: 0
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. Votes: 0
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question. Votes: 0
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. Votes: 0
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. Votes: 0
Living is not breathing but doing. Votes: 0
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. Votes: 0
Money is the seed of money. Votes: 0
Posterity is always just. Votes: 0
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. Votes: 0
By doing good we become good. Votes: 0
The general will is always right. Votes: 0
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. Votes: 0
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. Votes: 0
Abstract truth is the eye of reason. Votes: 0
Sacrifice life to truth. Votes: 0
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others. Votes: 0
I only see clearly what I remember. Votes: 0
A born king is a very rare being. Votes: 0
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. Votes: 0
He who blushes is already guilty. Votes: 0