It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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

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

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

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

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

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...

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species

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:...

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator....

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator....

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

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

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

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity...

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity...

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

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

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible...

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible...

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for...

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for...