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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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’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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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