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* ''Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.'' |
* ''Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.'' |
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** Translation: I am not the rose, but I have lived near |
** Translation: I am not the rose, but I have lived near it. |
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** A. Hayward, ''Autobiography and Letters'' of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction. |
** A. Hayward, ''Autobiography and Letters'' of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction. |
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* Diversity is life; uniformity is death. |
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** Quoted in Robert Tombs, ''France 1814–1914'', 62. |
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* 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. |
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** "[[w:The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns|The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns]]" (1819) <!-- Quoted in A. C. Grayling, ''Democracy and Its Crisis'' (2017) pt. 2, ch. 9 --> |
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*[http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=861&Itemid=28 ''Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments''] |
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Latest revision as of 17:05, 17 November 2025
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (October 25, 1767 – December 8, 1830) was a Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician.
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Quotes
[edit]- Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.
- Translation: I am not the rose, but I have lived near it.
- A. Hayward, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction.
- Diversity is life; uniformity is death.
- 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.
External links
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- Find-A-Grave profile for Benjamin Constant
- Institut Benjamin Constant homepage
- Rebecq liberal
- Works by Benjamin Constant at Project Gutenberg
- Intellectual portrait of B. C. by Emile Faguet (in French)
- The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns (1819)
- Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments