There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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