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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
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
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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.
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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
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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