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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Character Myself Time
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
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
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
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
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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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Goodness Hands Man
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Democracy God Government Man Nation
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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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation