However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEverything 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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation 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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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