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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

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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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