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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
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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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
There 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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Character Myself Time
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
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
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
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
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
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking