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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?

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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I Have Always Said And Felt That True Enjoyment Can Not Be Described.

The Man Who Meditates Is A Depraved Animal.

The Science Of Government Is Only A Science Of Combinations, Of Applications, And Of Exceptions, According To Times, Places And Circumstances.

Generally We Obtain Very Surely And Very Speedily What We Are Not Too Anxious To Obtain.

He Who Blushes Is Already Guilty.

The First Person Who, Having Enclosed A Plot Of Land, Took It Into His Head To Say This Is Mine And Found People Simple Enough To Believe Him Was The True Founder Of Civil Society. What Crimes, Wars, Murders, What Miseries And Horrors Would The Human Race Have Been Spared, Had Some One Pulled Up The Stakes Or Filled In The Ditch And Cried Out To His Fellow Men: "do Not Listen To This Imposter. You Are Lost If You Forget That The Fruits Of The Earth Belong To All And The Earth To No One!

Many Men, Seemingly Impelled By Fortune, Hasten Forward To Meet Misfortune Half Way.

Rather Suffer An Injustice Than Commit One.

Chemistry... Is Like The Maid Occupied With Daily Civilisation; She Is Busy With Fertilisers, Medicines, Glass, Insecticides ... For She Dispenses The Recipes.

I Think We Cannot Too Strongly Attack Superstition, Which Is The Disturber Of Society; Nor Too Highly Respect Genuine Religion, Which Is The Support Of It.

Girls Must Be Thwarted Early In Life.

British History

Living Is Not Breathing But Doing.

If There Were A Nation Of Gods, It Would Govern Itself Democratically. A Government So Perfect Is Not Suited To Men.

Every Artists Wants To Be Applauded

Liberty May Be Gained, But Can Never Be Recovered.

There Is Not A Single Ill-doer Who Could Not Be Turned To Some Good.

Teach Him To Live Rather Than To Avoid Death: Life Is Not Breath, But Action, The Use Of Our Senses, Our Mind, Our Faculties, Every Part Of Ourselves Which Makes Us Conscious Of Our Being. Life Consists Less In Length Of Days Than In The Keen Sense Of Living. A Man Maybe Buried At A Hundred And May Never Have Lived At All. He Would Have Fared Better Had He Died Young.

What, Then, Is The Government? An Intermediary Body Established Between The Subjects And The Sovereign For Their Mutual Communication, And Charged With The Execution Of The Laws And The Maintenance Of Freedom, Civil As Well As Political.

At First We Will Only Skim The Surface Of The Earth Like Young Starlings, But Soon, Emboldened By Practice And Experience, We Will Spring Into The Air With The Impetuousness Of The Eagle, Diverting Ourselves By Watching The Childish Behavior Of The Little Men Or Awling Miserably Around On The Earth Below Us.

By Doing Good We Become Good.

Luxury Either Comes Of Riches Or Makes Them Necessary; It Corrupts At Once Rich And Poor, The Rich By Possession And The Poor By Covetousness.

The Passions Are The Voice Of The Body.

Virtue Is A State Of War, And To Live In It We Have Always To Combat With Ourselves.

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What Wisdom Can You Find That Is Greater Than Kindness?

We Cannot Work For Others Without Working For Ourselves.

There Are Two Things To Be Considered With Regard To Any Scheme. In The First Place, Is It Good In Itself? In The Second, Can It Be Easily Put Into Practice?

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.

There Are Always Four Sides To A Story: Your Side, Their Side, The Truth And What Really Happened.

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When A Man Dies He Clutches In His Hands Only That Which He Has Given Away During His Lifetime.

An Honest Man Nearly Always Thinks Justly.

The People Is Never Corrupted, But It Is Often Deceived.

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