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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

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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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