Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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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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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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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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