| 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. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| Cities are the abyss of the human species. |
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- Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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