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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

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
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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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
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
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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Beautiful Hide Learning Make Up Self Love Shine Woman
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
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
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 Nation Perfection
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics