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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

To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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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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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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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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