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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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