A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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