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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
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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Goodness Hands Man
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
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
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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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
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