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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
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
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Imagination Love Myself Time
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race