Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Dignity
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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