Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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.

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....

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

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

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

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what...

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which...

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which...

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely...

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely...

A feeble body weakens the mind.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized...

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...

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time...

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time...

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...

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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:...

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

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

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;...

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on...

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on...

Live free or die

Live free or die

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human...

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human...

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving...

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving...