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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
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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Law Man Material Truth
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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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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Character Myself Time
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
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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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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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 is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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To do is to be.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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