Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (October 25,1767 –December 8,1830) was aSwiss-born thinker, writer andFrench politician.

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• 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.
  • "The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns" (1819)

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