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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHappiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Man’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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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