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1767–1830 France

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (October 25, 1767 – December 8, 1830) was a Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician.

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The flames of Moscow were the aurora of the liberty of the world.

Esprit de Conquête. Preface (1813)

I am not the rose, but I have lived near it.

Diversity is life; uniformity is death.

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.

The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Constant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.