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.
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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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