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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

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
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
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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Character Myself Time
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
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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Character Myself Time
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
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
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison