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Letter "J" » Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
«To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Liberty
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duties, humanity, liberty, renounce, renounces, renouncing, rights, right to liberty, surrender
«Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.»
«Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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blushed, blushes, guiltier, guilty, He Is Guilty, innocence
«The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.»
«Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.»
«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.»
«Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect»
«I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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as it were, delirium, ecstasy, identifying, indescribable, melting, the system
«Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself»
«You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.»
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