I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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