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Benjamin Constant
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“Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.”
Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) said by 1830 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Diversity is life; uniformity is death.”
Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) first seen 1814 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Robert Tombs, France 1814–1914, 62.
“The aim of the ancients was the sharing of social power among the citizens of the same fatherland: this is what they called liberty. The aim of the moderns is the enjoyment of liberty in private pleasures, and they call “liberty” the guarantees accorded by institutions to these pleasures.”
Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns" (1819)