Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEvery person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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