To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUAlas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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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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