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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
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 Nation Perfection
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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
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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Imagination Love Myself Time
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom