Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

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

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

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it....

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it....

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

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and...

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if...

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;...

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...

Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found...

Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found...

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...