"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know..." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I only see clearly what I remember.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.