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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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