There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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