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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
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 Identify Myself Nature
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
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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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching