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.
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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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In 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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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