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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man 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
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
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Democracy Reality Responsibility
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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 Nation Perfection
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason