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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

To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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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Believe Different Existence Myself See
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
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
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
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
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Character Myself Time
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
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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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave