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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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