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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

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  It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.

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  We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

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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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  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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  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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  I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.

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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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  I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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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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  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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  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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  Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.

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  Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

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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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