To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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