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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

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 Happiness Identify Myself Nature
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
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
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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
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
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
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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
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
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave