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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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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 social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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