I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHappiness 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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To do is to be.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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 have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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