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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing

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