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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
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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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek 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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
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
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Instagram Captions Simplicity
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth