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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 Regard Slave
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
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
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
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
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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
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
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World