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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth
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
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
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
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
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
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
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 Solitude Time
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste

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