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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
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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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth
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
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
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
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
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself