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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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 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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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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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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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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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