Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

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...

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...

War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and...

War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and...

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Truth is no road to fortune

Truth is no road to fortune

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

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

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

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

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.C

Childhood is the sleep of reason.C

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life;...

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life;...

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned...

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned...

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

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

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and...

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and...

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every...

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every...

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or...

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or...