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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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