Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMy love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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