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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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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 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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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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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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.
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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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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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