To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMAN 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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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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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To do is to be.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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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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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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