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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
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
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
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
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 Slave
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
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