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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

If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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