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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man 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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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