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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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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
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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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 would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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