Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere 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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To do is to be.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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