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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.
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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
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
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
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Goodness Hands Man
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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
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
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
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
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
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World