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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Man 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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
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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