We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOne does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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To do is to be.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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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 man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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