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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

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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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