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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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