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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
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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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
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 Man Nation
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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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth
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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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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Character Myself Time
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
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste