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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
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
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
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching