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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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.
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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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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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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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