In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Topics: Freedom Quotes, Liberty Quotes, Slavery Quotes

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and...

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and...

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

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

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as...

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as...

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own:...

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own:...

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance...

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance...

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these...

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to...

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

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body

I only see clearly what I remember.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness;...

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness;...