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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Different Instagram Captions Myself
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
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
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 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
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
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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 people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Freedom Mistake People Slave
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison

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