It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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