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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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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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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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