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 ROUSSEAUEverything 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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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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