What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan’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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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 would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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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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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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