Benjamin Constant

thumb|200px|Benjamin Constant Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (October 25, 1767 – December 8, 1830) was a Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician.'Quotes 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) External links Find-A-Grave profile for Benjamin Constant Institut Benjamin Constant homepage Rebecq liberal Benjamin+Constant Benjamin Constant 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 Category:Philosophers from Switzerland Category:Philosophers from France Category:1767 births Category:1830 deaths Category:Politicians from France Category:Novelists from Switzerland Category:Novelists from France Category:Protestants Category:University of Edinburgh alumni