It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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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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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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To do is to be.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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