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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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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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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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