Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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