To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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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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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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