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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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