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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
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
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
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
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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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
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
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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up