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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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
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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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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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