Justice & Rights Sayings
34 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 34 authors
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I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint Domingue.
The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world.
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling.
Justice is nothing else than the charity of the wise.
It is a fact that I have always placed my personal freedom before everything else.
I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
I do not wish to be judged by what others have done, but by what I myself do.
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies.
The only law here is what I decree.
The only law here is what I say it is.
The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.
That man will be very fortunate who, led by some unusual inner light, shall be able to turn from the dark and confused labyrinths within which he might have gone forever wandering with the crowd and becoming ever more entangled. Therefore, in the mat…
I die innocent.