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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Law Man Material Truth
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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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Law Man Material Truth
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
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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Character Myself Time
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
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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Beautiful Hide Learning Make Up Self Love Shine Woman

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