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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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 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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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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