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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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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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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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