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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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
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
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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
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
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
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive