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A feeble body weakens the mind.  
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.  
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.  
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Mod...  
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.  
Childhood is the sleep of reason.  
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.  
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode...  
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.  
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate...  
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is ne...  
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a righ...  
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest ...  
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?  
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing ...  
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.  
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a l...  
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be o...  
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.  
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more dif...  
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; th...  
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.  
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.  
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.  
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what tha...  
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.  
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know m...  
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.  
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse wi...  
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness durin...  
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire f...  
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.  
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as ...  
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.  
The English think they are free. They are free only during the electio...  
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, ...  
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years b...  
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to wa...  
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is bound...  
There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In th...  
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in ...  
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that whi...  
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we...  
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.  
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experie...  
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for t...  
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat ...  
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to ...