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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

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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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 man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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