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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

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
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
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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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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To do is to be.
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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
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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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..
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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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