To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEvery person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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