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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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, 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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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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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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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