From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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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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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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