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My liveliest delight is in having conquered myself. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. View quote
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself. View quote
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please. View quote
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Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart but women will read the heart of man better than they. View quote
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We cannot work for others without working for ourselves. View quote
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs. View quote
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything. View quote
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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it. View quote
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Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all. View quote
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With children use force with men reason such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Socrates died like a philosopher Jesus Christ died like a God. View quote
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm. View quote
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To live is not breathing it is action. View quote
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. View quote
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Abstract truth is the eye of reason. View quote
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. View quote
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One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. View quote
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just. View quote
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. View quote
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Living is not breathing but doing. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders. View quote
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Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. View quote
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At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, 'Let them eat cake'. View quote
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Conscience is the voice of the soul the passions are the voice of the body. View quote
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