People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn 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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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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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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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