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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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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 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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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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 feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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