However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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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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 may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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