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  • #1
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
    Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • #2
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”
    Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • #3
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.”
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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  • #4
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • #5
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.”
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

  • #6
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.”
    Rousseau

  • #7
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

  • #8
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
    Rousseau

  • #9
    John Stuart Mill
    “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
    John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

  • #10
    John Stuart Mill
    “Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.”
    John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

  • #11
    John Stuart Mill
    “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
    John Stuart Mill

  • #12
    John Stuart Mill
    “To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
    John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government

  • #13
    John Stuart Mill
    “if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.”
    John Stuart Mill

  • #14
    John Stuart Mill
    “I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .”
    John Stuart Mill, An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings

  • #15
    John Stuart Mill
    “It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
    John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

  • #16
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #17
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #18
    Marilyn Monroe
    “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #19
    Marilyn Monroe
    “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #20
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch



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