To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUAlas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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