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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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 birth was my first misfortune.
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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 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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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