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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
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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Law Man Material Truth
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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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Character Myself Time
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World