Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn 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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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.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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