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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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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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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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