Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery

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.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you...

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you...

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make...

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make...

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...

True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind;...

True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind;...

Money is the seed of money.

Money is the seed of money.

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...

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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...

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

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...

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...

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.