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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

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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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