Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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