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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Law Man Material Truth
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Democracy God Government Man Nation
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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Character Myself Time
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking