However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUFrom this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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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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