I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
From Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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