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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

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Law Man Material Truth
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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
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
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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
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
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
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
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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