To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBut 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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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