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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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