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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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 first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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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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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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