Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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To do is to be.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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