“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.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“To impose celibacy on such a large body as the clergy of the Catholic Church is not to forbid it to have wives but to order it to be content with the wives of others.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“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.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“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.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“I may be no better, but at least I am different.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“I only see clearly what I remember.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are…. If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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