If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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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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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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 am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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