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Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
French political philosopher
1712 - 1778
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
French political philosopher
1712 - 1778
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

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