What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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 do is to be.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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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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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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