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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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To do is to be.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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