The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTrust your heart rather than your head.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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