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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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To do is to be.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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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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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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