I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUFrom this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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