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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

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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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To do is to be.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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