Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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To do is to be.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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