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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

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
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
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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 have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
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
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
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
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World

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