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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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
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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Law Man Material Truth
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
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
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
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
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
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
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 live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself