What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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 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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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