Trust your heart rather than your head.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn 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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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To do is to be.
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