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• No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
• There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
• I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
• This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
• Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to…
• When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
• Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the…

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