There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUFrom this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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To do is to be.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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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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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