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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
IT is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you pretend that someone is keeping you from exercising your liberty. Who is this? It is you yourself.
BUT as long as you pretend to live in pure autonomy, as your own master, without even a god to rule you, you will ine
Thomas Merton • New Seeds of Contemplation
am struck by the spectacle; for to my mind the end of a good government is to ensure the welfare of a people, and not to establish order and regularity in the midst of its misery and its distress.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
The improvement of man can be measured by the level of his inner freedom. The more a person becomes free from his personality, the more freedom he has.
Leo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“…the poor were reminded that the rich were thieving and corrupt and had attained their privileges through plunder and deception rather than virtue or talent. Moreover, they had rigged society in such a way that the poor could never improve their lot individually, however capable and willing they might be. Their only hope lay in mass social protest
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