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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes: Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
         

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.


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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.



People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.



Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?



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Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.



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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.



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