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Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque , or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. He was the author of a partly biographical psychological novel, Adolphe. He was a fervent classical liberal of the early 19th century, who influenced the Trienio Liberal movement in Spain, the Liberal Revolution of 1820 in Portugal, the Greek War of Independence, the November Uprising in Poland, the Belgian Revolution, and liberalism in Brazil and Mexico. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. October 1767 – 8. December 1830   •   Other names Henri Benjamin Constant De Rebecque
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Benjamin Constant Quotes

“The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.”

Benjamin Constant Adolphe

Source: Adolphe

Love , Life , Question , Suffering

“I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.”

Benjamin Constant

Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.
A. Hayward, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction.

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