There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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To do is to be.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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