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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

From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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To do is to be.
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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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Law Man Material Truth
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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 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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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
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