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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s thoughts on members carry his classic philosophical weight, each of the nine lines probing the nature of society and the individual. The collection is short yet thought‑provoking.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

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The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and…

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War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally…

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The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the…

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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament;…

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Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just…

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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"…

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War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals…

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions…

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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I…

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“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -…

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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and…

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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

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“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people…

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