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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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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 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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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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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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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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