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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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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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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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