What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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.
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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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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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