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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
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.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
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 Man Nation
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
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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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
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
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
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

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