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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMAN 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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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