Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator everything degenerates in the hands of man.
Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator everything degenerates in the hands of man.
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart but women will read the heart of man better than they.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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?
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
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Man was born free, but is everywhere in bondage.
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said This is mine, and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Men and nations can only be reformed in their youth they become incorrigible as they grow old.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories