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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

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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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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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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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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