To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt 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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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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