The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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To do is to be.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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