I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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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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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.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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