I may be no better, but at least I am different.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBut 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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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 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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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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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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.
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