Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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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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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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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 there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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