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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
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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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
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
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
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature