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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
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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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
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 Slave
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
To do is to be.
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