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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
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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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
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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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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