Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
From Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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