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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes: It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
         

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.


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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.



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There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.



Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

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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.



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.

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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