To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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