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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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To do is to be.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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