Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a

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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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Women
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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? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Risk
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Death
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran

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Death

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. – H.L. Mencken

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Death

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it. – Suzanne Fields

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Death

I wouldnt feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy – Id be bored to death. – Joaquin Phoenix

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Death

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I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. – Oscar Wilde

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Vegetarianism

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke

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Death

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. – Aristotle

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Property

People are never free of trying to be content. – Murray Bookchin

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Contentment