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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection

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