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- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
- Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does…
- Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
- Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt…
- True genius is creative and makes all from nothing.
- As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some…
- Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man…
- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no…
- It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
- But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
- I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove…
- Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
- Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws…
- All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
- Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
- Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have…
- 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…
- 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
- As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
- Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
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