To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHappiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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 feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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