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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
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 Slave
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
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
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
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
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
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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