But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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