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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan’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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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