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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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