To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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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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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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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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