Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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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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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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