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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

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
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
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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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
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
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
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
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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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time