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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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To do is to be.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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