You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
To live is not breathing it is action.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]
I only see clearly what I remember.
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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