What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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 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 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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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