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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
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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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
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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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man