If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEvery person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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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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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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