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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

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
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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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
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
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
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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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual