To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEverything 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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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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