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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUAlas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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