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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 am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Life Live Man
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
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
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth
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?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Believe Fantasy People Reality World
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
Trust your heart rather than your head.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
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 ROUSSEAU

Goodness Hands Man
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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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Feeling Identify Myself Nature
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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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Book Hate Myself Teaching