I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUFrom this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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