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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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
We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Law Man Material Truth
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Law Man Material Truth
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching