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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 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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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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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