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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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