To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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To do is to be.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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