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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

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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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
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
In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Democracy Reality Responsibility
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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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Character Myself Time
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
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
We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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