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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
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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Law Man Material Truth
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
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.
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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
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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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking