“The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ”

“The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ”

“The only way to make men speak well of us is to do it.”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“had no need of a guide to learn ignorance”

“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”

“I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves. [in response to Rousseau's "The Social Contract"]”