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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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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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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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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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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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