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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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