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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Body

Causes

Destruction

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Gratitude

Duty

Right

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Years

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

English

Parliament

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Cowards

Heroes

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Day

Famous

Heroes

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Enjoyment

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Living

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Performance

Promise