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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat, 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.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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