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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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