The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMAN 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 sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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