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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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