Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve

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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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. – Garrison Keillor

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves. – André Gide

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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. – Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 1759

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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca

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