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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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