Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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