It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBut 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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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