An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
03MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
02MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
All the first movements of nature are good and right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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01MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
As a general rule—never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itself; for the child’s attention is so taken up with the symbol that he will forget what it signifies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
30APR2026 – Quote of the Day
Passions are the motive of all action.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
29APR2026 – Quote of the Day
To live is not to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
28APR2026 – Quote of the Day
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
27APR2026 – Quote of the Day
La Marseillaise (1792)
Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us, of tyranny
The blood-stained standard is raised,
Do you hear in the countryside,
Those blood-thirsty soldiers ablare?
They’re coming right into your arms
To tear the throats of your sons, your wives!
To arms, citizens,
Form up your battalions
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Water our furrows!
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
26APR2026 – Quote of the Day
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet, keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
25APR2026 – Quote of the Day
If God in his wisdom have brought close
The day when I must die,
That day by water or fire or air
My feet shall fall in the destined snare
Wherever my road may lie.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti