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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
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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Character Myself Time
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
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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Goodness Hands Man
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
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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Character Myself Time
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal