Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

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These are some quotes by French author Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, who lived between June 28, 1712 and July 2, 1778.

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

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

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