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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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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Character Myself Time
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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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
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 Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk