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" Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War
Always
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" We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. "
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" 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 himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? "
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" No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. "
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" Childhood is the sleep of reason. "
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" Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. "
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" Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. "
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" Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. "
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" Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. "
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" It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. "
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" I only see clearly what I remember. "
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" Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. "
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" The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. "
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" Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. "
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" How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? "
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Lived
" We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. "
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" It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. "
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" All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. "
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" You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. "
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" Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. "
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" No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. "
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" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "
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Death
" Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. "
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" Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. "
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" Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. "
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" I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. "
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" I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects. "
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