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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
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 Slave
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
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Democracy Reality Responsibility
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself