Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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 imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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 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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